Busker v. Wabtec Corp.’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “[t]he overall purpose of the prevailing wage law ... is to benefit and protect employees on public works projects. This general objective subsumes within it a number of specific goals: to protect employees from substandard wages that might be paid if contractors could recruit labor from distant cheap-labor areas; to permit union contractors to compete with nonunion contractors; to benefit the public through the superior efficiency of well-paid employees; and to compensate nonpublic employees with higher wages for the absence of job security and employment benefits enjoyed by public employees.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mendoza v. Fonseca McElroy Grinding Co.

2. “Is operating engineers' offsite "mobilization work"-including the transportation to and from a public works site of roadwork grinding equipment-performed "in the execution of [a] contract for public work," Cal. Lab. Code § 1772 , such that it entitles workers to "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" pursuant to section 1771 of the California Labor Code ?”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mendoza v. Fonseca McElroy Grinding Co.

3. “considerations of comity and federalism suggest that the court of last resort in California, rather than our court, should have the opportunity to answer the question in the first instance.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mendoza v. Fonseca McElroy Grinding Co.