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There are many times when employees are sent home due to lack of work or an Act of God.  While reporting time pay is not a prevailing wage regulation, it is addressed in the Industrial Welfare Commission Orders 1-16, Section 5.  These Wage Orders require that an employee be paid for certain unworked but regularly scheduled time at their regular rate of pay. 

The basic rules of reporting time pay are as follows:

The new Health Care Reform has created a bit of confusion for many contractors.  When working on prevailing wage and Davis-Bacon jobs, health insurance is usually the least of your worries.  All of the paperwork and regulations that have to be followed while on these jobs is enough to think about.  Keeping current on the minutiae of health care policy can sometimes feel like it's just too much - which is why we wanted to let y

With all of the changes that new Health Care Reform has brought this year, many contractors and their Davis-Bacon and prevailing wage employees have questions.  One of the biggest questions that employee's may have is “how does the new dependent coverage affect me and my dependents?”  We hope that the information we have gathered below may help shed some light on the subject.

A number of times since it’s passage, the Davis Bacon and Related Acts have been suspended by executive order.