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California Supreme Court: charter cities need not pay prevailing wages to private construction workers on locally funded municipal public works

  • Holland & Knight LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 10 2012

On July 2, 2012, the California Supreme Court issued a decision that launched early fireworks throughout the state, either in celebration or alarm, over its far-reaching impact on public works projects

Second Circuit upholds project labor agreements for public contracts

  • Duane Morris LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 5 2012

In The Building Industry Electrical Contractors Association v. The City of New York, 2012 U.S. App. Lexis 9160, 193 L.R.R.M. 2177, The Second Circuit recently upheld the dismissal of an action brought on by two contractor associations, challenging the validity of a Project Labor Agreement (“PLA”) entered between the City of New York and the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York and Vicinity (“BCTC”

Appellate court applies prevailing wage laws to landscape maintenance work on government-owned property

  • Sedgwick LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 8 2012

California's prevailing wage laws generally require that persons employed on public works receive "not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages for work of a similar character in the locality in which the public work is performed."

Missouri Supreme Court decision provides reminder of breadth of prevailing wage requirements on construction contracts

  • Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 16 2011

On March 1, 2011, the Supreme Court of Missouri issued a unanimous opinion holding that a contractor's "care and maintenance" of the water storage tank and tower for the city of Monroe City, Missouri, was "construction" and thereby covered under the Missouri Prevailing Wage Act, Mo. Rev. Stat. 290.210, et seq. (the “Act”

Indirect cost and profit recovery for increased wages

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 7 2011

The Civilian Board of Contract Appeals last month issued an important decision permitting broad recovery under the contract Changes clause for a construction contractor performing a contract subject to the Davis-Bacon Act

New caselaw concerning Ohio’s prevailing wage and procurement laws could have a significant impact on public owners, private developers, and contractors

  • Frost Brown Todd LLC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 23 2010

In the last year, the Ohio Supreme Court decided three cases involving Ohio's prevailing wage laws

Developments in the Prevailing Wage Law

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 10 2008

The Ohio Prevailing Wage Law, enacted in the 1930s and modeled after the federal Davis-Bacon Act, essentially requires contractors to pay union scale wages and benefits on almost all construction and remodeling work in connection with a "public improvement" i.e., a project "by and for" a public authority supported in whole or in part with public dollars

Who can challenge failure to pay prevailing wage?

  • Bricker & Eckler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 4 2007

Most Ohio contractors are, or should be, aware of prevailing wage requirements on public construction projects (with the exception of school construction, where prevailing wage is not required

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