In today's busy workplace, business owners and payroll administrators are faced with numerous challenges which sometimes result in employee wage underpayments. Often times a wage underpayment isn't discovered until after paychecks have been created and cashed; which then requires wage restitution to the employee. Continue reading
Certified payroll report mistakes cause delayed payments and can put your company's good standing in jeopardy with the General Contractor or Project Administrator. Continue reading
The benefits of paying the Prevailing Wage Fringe Benefit portion to bona-fide plan is often misunderstood by employers and employees alike.
Prevailing wage jobs, those jobs that are subject to the Davis-Bacon Act and/or State Prevailing Wage Laws, require that… Continue reading
The fact that you are a non-union shop, and your employees are probably also work on non-prevailing wage jobs adds another layer of complexity to this. Continue reading
All prevailing wage projects will come with wage determination schedules that detail the base rate and fringe rates for all craft and trades. Continue reading
The House early Saturday turned back an effort to suspend a Depression-era law, the Davis Bacon Act, that requires federal contractors to pay locally prevailing wage rates. Continue reading
Employee record keeping requirements must include proper time and payroll records for it's workers. The Fair Labor Standards Act, as well as most state wage and hour laws, are the ones who determine what is or is not "proper". Continue reading
California's prevailing wage laws and certified payroll reporting requirements can be mandated by any of the following agencies or organizations, each with their own unique set of reporting requirements. The California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) and the filing of Form A-1-131, Department of Transportation (CALTRANS) and the filing of a modified WH-347 form, the U.S. Department of Labor and the filing of a standard WH-347 Form, Electronic filing requirements through the use of LCPtracker, TRS Consultants, and/or Elation Systems, Inc. D-BAS Labor Compliance Software, Additional "paper filing requirements" by Labor Compliance Organizations, such as, Golden State Labor Compliance, LLC or CalLCP. Continue reading
How can I change the hourly wage for employees (and their OT rates) in the middle of a pay week? I have 54 union employees that I have to do this for due to a pay scale increase. Continue reading
Bacon, a former banker, explained the need for the law when he detailed for his legislative colleagues how an out-of-state construction firm paying extremely low wages transported thousands of unskilled workers hundreds of miles to toil on a public project in New York - “They were herded onto this job, they were housed in shacks, they were paid a very low wage, and ... Continue reading
