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# Pr **evailing Wa**  **ges Law & Legal De finition**  Prevailing wages is a term used in a legislative effort to provide organized labor a fair chance to bid for government contracts. Federal law requires all employers engaged in the performance of federal contracts to pay

"prevailing" wages to their workers. This ensures that nonunion employers cannot gain an unfair bidding advantage b y paying wages far below the union rate and passing the savings on to the government in lower bids. A prevailing wage is a rate of pay determined b y the U.S. Department of Labor based upon the particular geographic area for a given class of labor and ty pe of project. The Davis - Bacon Act, the McNamara - O'Hara Service Contract Act, and the Walsh - Heal y Act are the primary laws governing federall y funded

construction projects in the private sector. The Davis - Bacon Act requires that all contractors and subcontractors performing on federal contracts (and contractors or subcontractors performing on federally assisted contracts under the related Acts) in excess of $2,000 pay their laborers and mechanics not less than the prevailing wage rates and fringe benefits (as determined b y the Secretary of Labor) for corresponding classes of laborers and mechanics employ ed on similar projects in the area.The Wage and Hour Division of the U.S . Department of Labor determines prevailing wage rates to be paid on federally funded or assisted construction projects. It is the responsibility of the federal agency that funds or financially

assists Davis - Bacon covered construction projects to ensure th at the proper Davis - Bacon wage determination(s) is/are applied to such construction contracts. 

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