SB 244

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 and multiple-trade

projects whose estimated cost of completion is $100,000 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 exempts from the prevailing wage law a project of public works that

is subject to the federal Davis-Bacon Act, which requires mechanics and laborers

employed on the site of a project of public works under a contract in excess of $2,000

to which the federal government is a party to be paid the prevailing wage, as

determined by the federal secretary of labor, for projects of similar character in the

civil subdivision of the state in which the work is performed and to be paid any

overtime pay to which the laborer or mechanic is entitled under federal law.