Prevailing Wage Act

Illinois · Employment · §§ 820-130-0-01 to 820-130-9 · 19 sections

Overview

The Prevailing Wage Act governs the wages paid to laborers, mechanics, and other workers employed on public works undertaken by public bodies or by contractors and subcontractors performing work under public contracts. It directs the state labor department to ascertain and declare the general prevailing hourly wage rate for such work — a determination that is final for the contract at issue unless reviewed under the act's own procedures — and forbids a public works project from being instituted unless the act's requirements have been satisfied. Compliance is enforced through certified payroll records, periodic reporting on workers employed on public works, an electronic database, publication of contractors and subcontractors found to have disregarded their obligations to employees, and a prohibition on discharging or disciplining workers who report violations.

Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.

Sections covered

820 ILCS 130/0.01Short title
820 ILCS 130/1Employment › 820 ILCS 130 — Prevailing Wage Act
820 ILCS 130/10Employment › 820 ILCS 130 — Prevailing Wage Act
820 ILCS 130/11No public works project shall be instituted unless the provisions of this Act have been complied with
820 ILCS 130/11aThe Director of the Department of Labor shall publish in the Illinois Register no less often than once each calendar quarter a list of contractors or subcontractors found to have disregarded their obligations to employees under this Act
820 ILCS 130/11bDischarge or discipline of "whistle blowers" prohibited
820 ILCS 130/12If any section, sentence, clause or part of this act, is for any reason held to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the remaining portions of this act
820 ILCS 130/2This Act applies to the wages of laborers, mechanics and other workers employed in any public works, as hereinafter defined, by any public body and to anyone under contracts for public works
820 ILCS 130/2.1Public utilities
820 ILCS 130/3Employment › 820 ILCS 130 — Prevailing Wage Act
820 ILCS 130/3.1Employment on public works; report
820 ILCS 130/3.2Employment of females and minorities on public works
820 ILCS 130/4Ascertaining prevailing wage
820 ILCS 130/5Certified payroll
820 ILCS 130/5.1Electronic database
820 ILCS 130/6Employment › 820 ILCS 130 — Prevailing Wage Act
820 ILCS 130/7The finding of the Department of Labor ascertaining and declaring the general prevailing rate of hourly wages shall be final for all purposes of the contract for public work then being considered, unless reviewed under the provisions of this Act
820 ILCS 130/8(Repealed)
820 ILCS 130/9Employment › 820 ILCS 130 — Prevailing Wage Act

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