Also slated for death by Republicans this morning in Senate Commerce and Energy is Senate Bill 110, economist and Senator Reynold Nesiba’s (D-15/Sioux Falls) proposal for wage fairness for construction workers on state projects.
Unlike President Joe Biden’s policy that now guarantees workers on federal contracts a minimum wage of $16.20 per hour, Nesiba’s SB 110 seeks to guarantee that laborers and mechanics working on contracts on public buildings, highways, or other public works financed wholly or in part by state funds get at least the prevailing wage for their trade or occupation in the county or locality of the project’s labor pool. SB 110 also requires that workers putting in more hours than the prevailing work week get at least time and a half for those additional hours.
SB 110 requires each contracting state agency to research labor market conditions to determine the prevailing wages and hours of labor before they open their contracts for bids. State agencies would also have to report what they find to the Department of Labor and Regulation, which would post the information for each contract at the project site… which I would assume means that wage information would become public record, which means we could make some pretty awesome spreadsheets showing the going rates for workers in South Dakota.
Foreseeing that such investigation will unearth low prevailing wages across South Dakota industries, Section 3 of Senate Bill 110 says the prevailing wage cited in a...
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