US DEPARTMENT OF LABOR INCREASES HOURLY WAGES ON FEDERAL CONTRACTS
On behalf of Kaplin Stewart Meloff Reiter & Stein, P.C. posted in Public Construction Projects on Jan 26, 2015.
Following the lead set in President Obama’s Executive Order 13658, the Department of Labor’s Wage & Hour Division issued a final rule raising the minimum wage for workers providing labor on federal construction and service contracts to $10.10 an hour.This final rule applies to new and replacement contracts that result from solicitations after January 1, 2015. It also places the Secretary of Labor in charge of setting the minimum wage beginning in 2016 with the restriction that the Secretary cannot ever lower it.
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