I do a lot of prevailing wage defense and am always interested in developments in this nuanced area of wage-hour law. I have noticed a trend lately that States (e.g.
Continue Reading New Prevailing Wage Law In Illinois Puts Pressure On General Contractors To Sign Up With Unions: The Government Assisting In Top-Down Organizing!A favorite tactic of the New Jersey Department of Labor, in a prevailing wage case, where the subcontractor cannot pay the assessments, is to go “upstream” against the General Contractor
Continue Reading Contractors Cannot Go Upstream Against The State of New Jersey In Prevailing Wage Class Action
I have blogged many times on prevailing wage issues and, of late, have commented on the unwarranted expansion of these laws. Well, here’s another one. The State of New York
Continue Reading Another Unwarranted Expansion Of The Reach Of Prevailing Wage Laws—Construction Employers Must Take Heed!
I do a lot of prevailing wage defense, both of general contractors and subcontractors on construction projects. A difficult, very nuanced, very gray area of the law. One danger that
Continue Reading In Prevailing Wage Cases, Going Upstream Just Got Easier, At Least In New York: A Coming Trend?
In July 2019, the New Jersey Legislature amended and expanded the State’s wage-hour laws to give the enforcing agency the power to stop an errant contractor, especially those doing prevailing
Continue Reading New Enforcement Powers Given to New Jersey DOL Exercised In Broad Fashion For First Time: The Coming Of The Storm?
On prevailing wage projects, employees are paid for the different trade work they do by the rate for that trade. Sometimes, employees work in more than one classification (e.g. Carpenter
Continue Reading On Davis-Bacon/Prevailing Wage Projects, Be Aware of “Split Classification” Issues and Problems
I do a great deal of prevailing wage defense on behalf of employers, both on a federal level (i.e. Davis-Bacon Act) and the State of New Jersey prevailing wage statute.
Continue Reading New Jersey Business Association Challenges Union Boondoggle Requirement of Mandatory Apprenticeship Program For Construction Employers
The area of prevailing wage law, construction wage-hour law, is a niche within a niche and a very complicated area of wage hour law. I am proud to say I
Continue Reading Prevailing Wage Class Action Dismissed for Failure to Allege “Public Work” Was Involved
This is an interesting case because it combines the elements of necessary, but not proven, commonality of situation for class certification and a quirky element of overtime calculation based on
Continue Reading Decertification of a Class and Rejection of Another Class in the Same Case: The Daily Double!
The world of prevailing wage law is a complex and nuanced one. It is, in truth, a niche within a niche of the wage-hour world. I have handled almost one
Continue Reading Prevailing Wage Law Case Shows Intricacies Of Such Laws: The Apprentice Issue