President Obama’s American Jobs Act is fraught with problems, not the least of which is that when the nation is reeling in a debt crisis it is hardly the time to go hundreds of billions deeper in debt ...

I have closely followed the new initiative by the USDOL on its changing in a dramatic way the manner in which prevailing wage rates are determined. That effort, however, has, for the moment, come to ...

(The Center Square) – An Illinois state legislator suggests a proposed amendment to the Prevailing Wage Act could drive up costs for taxpayers. House Bill 1189 says if there is a federally funded ...

A federal judge in Texas has hit pause on a rule that would effectively raise wages for workers on federally funded construction projects, nine months after the rule first went into effect. Northern ...

Gordon Griffin, Robert MacKichan Jr. The intersection of the Davis-Bacon Act (DBA) and General Services Administration (GSA) leasing has undergone significant changes over the past year, raising ...

Forcing federally funded public works projects to pay the so-called prevailing wage is a classic case of robbing Peter to pay Paul. The intention behind the Davis-Bacon Wage Act, which requires any ...

The West Haymarket arena project will come out money ahead even though subcontractors have to pay workers Davis-Bacon Act wages that are higher than some local companies pay, the arena builder says.