Prevailing Wage

When talking with prospective clients, the subject inevitably turns to 401(k) or similar retirement plans, and more often than not the response we get is, “I don’t want to discuss my pension plan.”   Of course, we always follow that with the obvious “why?” The responses we get back? “I just moved my plan and I’m not interested in doing THAT again” or “I REALLY love my TPA and wouldn’t think of moving it” or “I like having everything in one place (Paychex does my payroll AND my 401(k)!)” You get the idea.

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WM O'NEILL LATH & PLASTERING

November 9, 2011

We're still scratching our heads about this one. As followers of our blog know, we find the political reality of Prevailing Wage laws to be endlessly fascinating. And, based upon this article we found in the Michigan Messenger, the role of prevailing wage ordinances in the Lansing City Council races is no exception. You should take a few minutes and glance at the article.

Determining the Prevailing Wage rate for an H2B visa applicant (aka. Foreign Labor Prevailing Wage Certification) remains complicated as a result of an August 30, 2010 US District Court decision in which the court ruled against DOL's H2B rules.

A few days ago, we saw this posting on dailykos with an update on Nevada measure A.B. 312 - an attempt to revise (or dismantle, depending upon your perspective) Nevada's Prevailing Wage laws.

When you are working on a Davis-Bacon or Prevailing Wage project, there are a few things you need to know in order to properly credit your certified payroll report against your company’s prevailing wage fringe obligations; and one of the least understood is annualization.

This is a head’s up to all of our California Prevailing Wage clients - the DIR put out a press release on January 31, 2011 reminding employers to post summaries of work-related injury and illness at their place of business.  This summary should include a summary of all work-related injuries and illnesses that occurred in 2010, and must be posted from February 1 through April 30 of 2011. 

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:

With so much paperwork to be completed on California prevailing wage and Federal Davis-Bacon projects, the acronyms for the forms - WH-347, California A-1-131, DAS 140, DAS 142, CAC 2 - can become quite confusing as all of them are part of Federal and/or California prevailing wage requirements.