Changes follow first comprehensive regulatory review in nearly 40 years
After decades of sticking to the same system, construction workers will have a new system in place for determining their wages.
The Updating the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts Regulation has officially taken effect earlier this week follows the August 2023 publication of the final rule in the Federal Register.
Changes to the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts comes after the first comprehensive regulatory review in nearly 40 years. The said legislation gives the Department of Labor the responsibility to determining prevailing wages, issuing regulations and standards to be observed by federal agencies that award or fund projects subject to Davis-Bacon labor standards.
“Modernizing the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts (DBRA) is key to making sure that the jobs being created under the Biden-Harris administration’s Investing in America agenda are good jobs and that workers get the fair wages and benefits they deserve on federally funded constructions projects across the nation,” said Julie Su, acting secretary of labor.
“This updated rule will create pathways to the middle class for more families and help level the playing field for high-road employers because companies who exploit their workers, or who don’t pay workers fairly, should never have a competitive advantage.”
Earlier this month, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation that would push California’s health care workers’ minimum wage to $25 per...
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