Prevailing Wage Act

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.

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