PRINTER'S NO. 2524
No. 1795 Session of 1990
INTRODUCED BY GREENWOOD AND WENGER, SEPTEMBER 27, 1990
REFERRED TO LABOR AND INDUSTRY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1990
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of August 15, 1961 (P.L.987, No.442), entitled
2 "An act relating to public works contracts; providing for
3 prevailing wages; imposing duties upon the Secretary of Labor
4 and Industry; providing remedies, penalties and repealing
5 existing laws," further providing for the scope of the act
6 and for the duties of the secretary.
7 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
8 hereby enacts as follows:
9 Section 1. Sections 2(5) and 7 of the act of August 15, 1961
10 (P.L.987, No.442), known as the Pennsylvania Prevailing Wage
11 Act, amended August 9, 1963 (P.L.653, No.342), are amended to
12 read:
13 Section 2. Definitions.--As used in this act--
14 * * *
15 (5) "Public work" means construction, reconstruction,
16 demolition, alteration and/or repair work other than maintenance
17 work, done under contract and paid for in whole or in part out
18 of the funds of a public body where the estimated cost of the
19 total project is in excess of [twenty-five thousand dollars
1 ($25,000)] one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), but shall
2 not include work performed under a rehabilitation or manpower
3 training program.
4 * * *
5 Section 7. Duty of Secretary.--The secretary shall, after
6 consultation with the advisory board, determine the general
7 prevailing minimum wage rate in the locality in which the public
8 work is to be performed for each craft or classification of all
9 workmen needed to perform public work contracts during the
10 anticipated term thereof: Provided, however, That employer and
11 employe contributions for employe benefits pursuant to a bona
12 fide collective bargaining agreement shall be considered an
13 integral part of the wage rate for the purpose of determining
14 the minimum wage rate under this act. The minimum wage rate need
15 not be determined solely by the rates in collective bargaining
16 agreements. Nothing in this act, however, shall prohibit the
17 payment of more than the general prevailing minimum wage rate to
18 any workman employed on public work. The secretary shall
19 forthwith give notice by mail of all determinations of general
20 prevailing minimum wage rates made pursuant to this section to
21 any representative of any craft, any employer or any
22 representative of any group of employers, who shall in writing
23 request the secretary so to do.
24 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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