LANSING — Democrats who restored Michigan's law requiring higher pay and benefits on state-financed construction projects went a step further, adding enforcement provisions they say will empower regulators to crack down when workers are shortchanged.
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- Give the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity authority to enforce the law and write implementing rules.
- Allow LEO to levy a fine of up to $5,000 for each violation, plus an additional 10% penalty.
- Make contractors and subcontractors jointly and severally liable for violations.
- Allow workers who are not paid prevailing wages or benefits to sue contractors or subcontractors for damages, including costs and attorney fees.
- Give LEO the right to investigate and ascertain the wages paid by prevailing wage employers, including by entering any project covered by the law within normal hours of operation, interviewing employees and asking them to do wage surveys.
- Authorize LEO to subpoena witnesses and require the production of records, and to interview employees, supervisors and others in private without third parties present.
- Let employees or third parties file complaints, confidentially if they wish, with LEO if they have credible information that a violation may have occurred. There will be a rebuttable presumption of retaliation if an employee has been...
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