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Chapter 39.12 RCW: PREVAILING WAGES ON PUBLIC WORKS
RCWs > Title 39 > Chapter 39.12
39.12.010 Definitions.
39.12.015 Industrial statistician to make determinations of prevailing rate.
39.12.020 Prevailing rate to be paid on public works and under public building service maintenance contracts—Posting of statement of intent—Exception.
39.12.021 Prevailing rate to be paid on public works—Apprentice workers.
39.12.022 Vocationally handicapped—Exemption from RCW 39.12.020—Procedure.
39.12.026 Surveys—Applicability by county—Electronic option.
39.12.030 Contract specifications must state minimum hourly rate—Stipulation for payment—Residential and commercial construction work.
39.12.040 Statement of intent to pay prevailing wages, affidavit of wages paid—Alternative procedure.
39.12.042 Compliance with RCW 39.12.040—Liability of public agencies to workers, laborers, or mechanics.
39.12.050 False statement or failure to file—Penalty—Unpaid wages lien against bond and retainage—Prohibitions on bidding on future contracts—Hearing.
39.12.055 Prohibitions on bidding on future contracts.
39.12.060 Director of labor and industries to arbitrate disputes.
39.12.065 Investigation of complaints—Hearing—Remedies—Penalties.
39.12.070 Fees authorized for approvals, certifications, and arbitrations.
39.12.080 Public works administration account.
39.12.100 Independent contractors—Criteria.
39.12.110 Failure to provide or allow inspection of records.
Hours of labor on public works: Chapter 49.28 RCW.
Workers' compensation applicable to public works contracts: RCW 51.12.050, 51.12.070.
39.12.010
39.12.015
39.12.020
Prevailing rate to be paid on public works and under public building service maintenance contracts—Posting of statement of intent—Exception.
The hourly wages to be paid to laborers, workers, or mechanics, upon all public works and under all public building service maintenance contracts of the state or any county, municipality or political subdivision created by its laws, shall be not less than the prevailing rate of wage for an hour's work in the same trade or occupation in the locality within the state where such labor is performed. For a contract in excess of ten thousand dollars, a contractor required to pay the prevailing rate of wage shall post in a location readily visible to workers at the job site: PROVIDED, That on road construction, sewer line, pipeline, transmission line, street, or alley improvement projects for which no field office is needed or established, a contractor may post the prevailing rate of wage statement at the contractor's local office, gravel crushing, concrete, or asphalt batch plant as long as the contractor provides a copy of the wage statement to any employee on request:
(1) A copy of a statement of intent to pay prevailing wages approved by the industrial statistician of the department of labor and industries under RCW 39.12.040; and
(2) The address and telephone number of the industrial statistician of the department of labor and industries where a complaint or inquiry concerning prevailing wages may be made.
This chapter shall not apply to workers or other persons regularly employed by the state, or any county, municipality, or political subdivision created by its laws.
[ 2007 c 169 § 1; 1989 c 12 § 7; 1982 c 130 § 1; 1981 c 46 § 1; 1967 ex.s. c 14 § 1; 1945 c 63 § 1; Rem. Supp. 1945 § 10322-20.]
39.12.021
Prevailing rate to be paid on public works—Apprentice workers.
[ 1989 c 12 § 8; 1963 c 93 § 1.]
39.12.022
Vocationally handicapped—Exemption from RCW 39.12.020—Procedure.
The director of the department of labor and industries, to the extent necessary in order to prevent curtailment of opportunities for employment, shall by regulations provide for the employment of individuals whose earning capacity is impaired by physical or mental deficiency or injury, under special certificates issued by the director, at such wages lower than the prevailing rate applicable under RCW 39.12.020 and for such period as shall be fixed in such certificates.
[ 1972 ex.s. c 91 § 1.]
39.12.026
Surveys—Applicability by county—Electronic option.
(2) The department of labor and industries must provide registered contractors with the option of completing a wage survey electronically.
[ 2015 3rd sp.s. c 40 § 2; 2003 c 363 § 206.]
Effective date—2015 3rd sp.s. c 40: See note following RCW 39.04.320.
Findings—Intent—2003 c 363 §§ 201-206: See note following RCW 49.04.041.
39.12.030
Contract specifications must state minimum hourly rate—Stipulation for payment—Residential and commercial construction work.
(1) The specifications for every contract for the construction, reconstruction, maintenance or repair of any public work to which the state or any county, municipality, or political subdivision created by its laws is a party, shall contain a provision stating the hourly minimum rate of wage, not less than the prevailing rate of wage, which may be paid to laborers, workers, or mechanics in each trade or occupation required for such public work employed in the performance of the contract either by the contractor, subcontractor or other person doing or contracting to do the whole or any part of the work contemplated by the contract, and the contract shall contain a stipulation that such laborers, workers, or mechanics shall be paid not less than such specified hourly minimum rate of wage. If the awarding agency determines that the work contracted for meets the definition of residential construction, the contract must include that information.
(2) If the hourly minimum rate of wage stated in the contract specifies residential construction rates and it is later determined that the work performed is commercial and subject to commercial construction rates, the state, county, municipality, or political subdivision that entered into the contract must pay the difference between the residential rate stated and the actual commercial rate to the contractor, subcontractor, or other person doing or contracting to do the whole or any part of the work under the contract.
[ 2009 c 62 § 1; 1989 c 12 § 9; 1945 c 63 § 2; Rem. Supp. 1945 § 10322-21.]
39.12.040
39.12.042
Compliance with RCW 39.12.040—Liability of public agencies to workers, laborers, or mechanics.
If any agency of the state, or any county, municipality, or political subdivision created by its laws shall knowingly fail to comply with the provisions of RCW 39.12.040 as now or hereafter amended, such agency of the state, or county, municipality, or political subdivision created by its laws, shall be liable to all workers, laborers, or mechanics to the full extent and for the full amount of wages due, pursuant to the prevailing wage requirements of RCW 39.12.020.
[ 1993 c 404 § 3; 1989 c 12 § 11; 1975-'76 2nd ex.s. c 49 § 2.]
Effective date—1993 c 404: See note following RCW 39.12.070.
39.12.050
39.12.055
Prohibitions on bidding on future contracts.
(2) Committed an infraction or violation under chapter 18.27 RCW for performing work as an unregistered contractor; or
(3) Determined to be out of compliance by the Washington state apprenticeship and training council for working apprentices out of ratio, without appropriate supervision, or outside their approved work processes as outlined in their standards of apprenticeship under chapter 49.04 RCW.
[ 2009 c 197 § 3; 2008 c 120 § 3.]
39.12.060
Director of labor and industries to arbitrate disputes.
Such contract shall contain a further provision that in case any dispute arises as to what are the prevailing rates of wages for work of a similar nature and such dispute cannot be adjusted by the parties in interest, including labor and management representatives, the matter shall be referred for arbitration to the director of the department of labor and industries of the state and his or her decision therein shall be final and conclusive and binding on all parties involved in the dispute.
[ 1989 c 12 § 10; 1965 ex.s. c 133 § 4; 1945 c 63 § 6; Rem. Supp. 1945 § 10322-25.]
Uniform arbitration act: Chapter 7.04A RCW.
39.12.065
39.12.070
39.12.080
Public works administration account.
The public works administration account is created in the state treasury. The department of labor and industries shall deposit in the account all moneys received from fees or civil penalties collected under RCW 39.12.050, 39.12.065, and 39.12.070. Appropriations from the account may be made only for the purposes of administration of this chapter, including, but not limited to, the performance of adequate wage surveys, and for the investigation and enforcement of all alleged violations of this chapter as provided for in this chapter and chapters 49.48 and 49.52 RCW. During the 2017-2019 fiscal biennium the legislature may direct the state treasurer to make transfers of moneys in the public works administration account to the state general fund. It is the intent of the legislature to use the moneys transferred in the 2017-2019 biennium to support apprenticeship programs.
[ 2018 c 299 § 923; 2006 c 230 § 2; 2001 c 219 § 3; 1993 c 404 § 2.]
Effective date—2006 c 230: See note following RCW 39.12.070.
39.12.100
39.12.110
Failure to provide or allow inspection of records.
Any employer, contractor, or subcontractor who fails to provide requested records, or fails to allow adequate inspection of records in an investigation by the department of labor and industries under this chapter within sixty calendar days of service of the department's request may not use the records in any proceeding under this chapter to challenge the correctness of any determination by the department that wages are owed, that a record or statement is false, or that the employer, contractor, or subcontractor has failed to file a record or statement.
[ 2011 c 92 § 1.]