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AB 2451: Public works: prevailing wages.

  • Session Year: 2023-2024
  • House: Assembly
  • Latest Version Date: 2024-03-11

Current Status:

Failed

(2024-03-12: Re-referred to Com. on L. & E.)

Introduced

In Committee

First Chamber

In Committee

Second Chamber

Enacted

Version:

Existing law requires, except for public works projects of $1,000 or less, that workers employed on public works be paid not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages for work of a similar character in the locality that the public work is performed, and not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages for holiday and overtime work fixed, as prescribed. Existing law requires the Director of Industrial Relations to determine the applicable wage rates established by collective bargaining agreements and the rates that may have been predetermined for federal public works, within the locality and in the nearest labor market area.

This bill would require the director to use the higher rate when rates arise from collective bargaining agreements that have overlapping crafts or classifications.

Existing law establishes in the Labor and Workforce Development Agency the Department of Industrial Relations for specified purposes and provides for its administration by the Director of Industrial Relations. Existing law defines the designation head of the department to mean the Director of Industrial Relations, unless the Labor Code expressly provides that another entity has jurisdiction over a specified matter.This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that definition.

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