AB 831

Under current law, laborers, workers, mechanics, and truck drivers employed

on the site of certain state or local projects of public works (generally, single-trade

projects whose estimated cost of completion is $48,000 or more, multiple-trade

projects whose estimated cost of completion is $100,000 or more, and multiple-trade

projects constructed for a city or village having a population of less than 2,500 or for

a town whose estimated cost of completion is $234,000 or more): 1) must be paid at

the rate paid for a majority of the hours worked in the person's trade or occupation

in the area in which the project is located, as determined by the Department of

Workforce Development; and 2) may not be required or permitted to work a greater

number of hours per day and per week than the prevailing hours of labor, which is

no more than ten hours per day and 40 hours per week, unless they are paid 1.5 times

their basic rate of pay (commonly referred to as "overtime pay") for all hours worked

in excess of the prevailing hours of labor (prevailing wage law).

This bill raises the cost threshold for applicability of the prevailing wage law

to $96,000 for single-trade projects, $200,000 for multiple-trade projects, and

$468,000 for multiple-trade projects constructed for a city or village having a

population of less than 2,500 or for a town.