Davis Bacon – Concrete Products

Dusty nonunion rate records skew Davis-Bacon wage schedules

May 29, 2019 Concrete News

From the Associated Builders & Contractors, Washington, D.C. … The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) cites outdated wage schedules and union-favoring tendencies in an audit report on prevailing wage rates the David-Bacon Act (DBA) mandates on federal or federally assisted construction projects. As of September 2018, the OIG and report authors found:

Lies surrounding Davis Bacon compliance land concrete contractor jail time

August 1, 2017 Concrete News

Sources: U.S. Department of Labor; CP staff

The owner of an Oregon-based Westwind Concrete is nearing completion of a two-month prison sentence for lying to Labor Department Wage and Hour Division investigators about payment of $93,000 in back wages to 27 workers on a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development-backed project, subject to Davis Bacon and Related Acts prevailing wage provisions.