NELA Nite: Prevailing Wage Law Essentials
1 CLE Professional Practice
6- 7:30 PM
Prevailing Wage laws have been around for over a century, but have expanded far beyond their origin as a way of preventing public contractors from exploiting lower-wage workers from outside the locality of the project. Such laws now require substantial wages and fringe benefits in not only public construction and maintenance projects, but also in service work on a variety of government funded projects. For skilled workers those wages can top $100 per hour including benefits, giving unscrupulous contractors a strong incentive to cheat.