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1.035 documents for davis-bacon act wage rates

- 42 CFR 137.378 - Do the Federal Davis-Bacon Act and wage rates apply to construction projects performed by Self-Governance Tribes using their own funds or other non-Federal funds?
- Code of Federal Regulations - Title 42: Public Health
- Mass Megawatts Wind Power, Inc. Compensates Construction Employees with Davis Bacon Act Wage Rates
To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS Contact: Jon Ricker of Mass Megawatts Wind Power, Inc., +1-508- 751-5432, JonRicker@massmegawatts.com
- U.S. Newswire
- March 19, 2009
- 24 CFR 70.3 - Definitions.
... SUBJECT TO DAVIS-BACON AND HUD-DETERMINED WAGE RATES. 70.3 - Definitions. (a) A volunteer, for p...
- Code of Federal Regulations - Title 24: Housing and Urban Development

- Abc Member Testifies Davis-Bacon Act Is 'Fatally Flawed'
WASHINGTON, April 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In testimony today before the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) member Thomas Mistick, principal of Church Restoration Group, Cranberry Township, Pa., stated that the Davis- Bacon Act, as administered by the U.S. Department of Labor, "hinders economic growth, increases the federal deficit; and imposes an enormous paperwork burden on both contractors and the federal government." Mistick spoke at the hearing "Examining the Department of Labor's Implementation of the Davis-Bacon Act. The clear answer to the problems created by this fatally flawed and unfixable system is to repeal the Davis-Bacon Act and let the market set acceptable wage...

... of transparency in how the published wage rates are set and contains data errors regarding the num...
- U.S. Newswire
- April 14, 2011
- Anti-Labor Agenda
The Davis-Bacon Act requires that each construction contract exceeding $2,000 to which the United States is a party contain a clause setting forth the minimum wages to be paid to various classes of laborers employed under the contract. Contractors must pay workers no less than the locally prevailing wages and benefits. The Davis-Bacon Act directs the secretary of labor to determine such local prevailing wage rates. It is interesting that the White House sent Laura Bush out with the message that "Hurricane Katrina could have a silver lining," if it forces the nation to respond "in a different way to difficult poverty and racial problems" - at the same time President Bush suspended the Davis-Bacon Act saying, "I have found that the conditions caused by Hurricane Katrina constitute a natio...
- Bangor Daily News
- September 30, 2005
- Wage Methodology for the Temporary Non-agricultural Employment H–2B Program:
... SCA and DBA in setting the prevailing wage rates. The court ordered the Department to ``promulgate ...
- FR, August 01, 2011
- Rules
- Employment and Training Administration
- 42 CFR 137.379 - Do Davis-Bacon wage rates apply to construction projects performed by Self-Governance Tribes using Federal funds?
- Code of Federal Regulations - Title 42: Public Health
- From the Civic Affairs Committee Amended Prevailing Wage Law Will Cost Taxpayers More Jo Daviess County Legislative Committee Is Seeking Changes to the Law
By MERRI BERLAGE What does Prevailing Wage mean to John Q. Public? In 1931 the federal law named "Davis-Bacon Act," and later in Illinois in the 1940s a similar law was enacted into law to encourage the hiring of skilled local workers. Historians argue that the law was passed to prevent African-Americans from bidding on government contracts. Modern proponents of the law, however, argue that while elements of racism no doubt were part of the parlance of passing the bill, the motivating principle was clearly about a locality's ability to protect itself economically from wage rates.
- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- November 01, 2010
- 10 CFR 455.103 - Requirements for applications for credit.
... Davis-Bacon Act regarding labor standards or wage rates. (b) Credit for energy conservation measures...
- Code of Federal Regulations - Title 10: Energy
- 29 CFR 5.22 - Effect of the Davis-Bacon fringe benefits provisions.
...The Davis-Bacon Act and the prevailing wage provisions of the related statutes listed in ? 1.1... predetermine, as minimum wages, those wage rates found to be prevailing for corresponding classes o...
- Code of Federal Regulations - Title 29: Labor