Prevailing Wage Electrical California Goverment

robbytina

Someone please help us! We live in GA. Hubby's job landed him in CA for a governmental electrical job. Wage was stated at 1 rate. Now after a week of working, hubby's employer is going down on pay. The employer will be paying for hotel. This job is to last for approx 4 months. I and we need to know what prevailing rate is and if this sounds legit! Job rate has now been cut down by 12-15 hour, is this right, and can the employer do this, or is the employer getting the $$ himself
Thanks for any quick replies.

SLSTech

Here you go - find county, type, etc... http://www.access.gpo.gov/davisbacon/ca.html for applicable rates

You can pull a search on this site for other discussions on the Davis Bacon act & prevailing wage

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Chris Johnson

In California you can only reduce the wage if the job classification changes, or if the employee agrees to do the same job for less pay.

If it truly is a prevailing wage job those are a different set of rules again.

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K2

The problem with lighting retrofit in at least my state is that the "installers" can be classified as "maintenance workers" instead of electricians and the db wage would be 1/2. If however a lighting guy had a journeyman's license and doing retro's he would have to be paid db as an electrician. But that's my state... If your hubby doesn't have a j-man's license, (maybe because your state does not require one?), and they are listing him as maintenance that may be the end of story..


But from my experience with db wages, if a contractor tries to jack someone out of what their contract clearly states, the government will drop the hammer and the proper wages will be paid retroactivly....

Here's something..

From here..http://www.gpo.gov/davisbacon/referencemat.html