Pennsylvania Code › Title 34 - LABOR AND INDUSTRY › Part I - Department of Labor and Industry › Chapter 9 - EMPLOYMENT AND WAGES › Subchapter E - PREVAILING REGULATIONS › Section 9.102 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this
					 subchapter, have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
					 otherwise:
Act
-The Pennsylvania Prevailing Wage Act
					 (43
					 P. S. §§
											165-1-165-17).
Apprentice
-A person employed and working
					 under a bona fide apprenticeship program, directly related to the particular
					 craft involved in the construction industry and registered with an approved by
					 the Pennsylvania Apprenticeship and Training Council and whose training and
					 employment are in full compliance with the provisions of The Apprenticeship and
					 Training Act (43 P. S. §§
											90.1-90.10), approved July 14, 1961.
Authorized deduction
-Those deductions
					 which are authorized by the Wage Payment and Collection Law (43 P. S.
					 §§
											260.1-260.45), approved July 14,
					 1961 and the Regulations of the Department of Labor and Industry issued
					 pursuant thereto.
Bona fide collective bargaining
					 agreement
-The agreement negotiated between the historically
					 established and recognized bargaining representatives for the employers and of
					 the workmen for the particular crafts or classifications involved providing for
					 applicable wage rates, hours of work, working conditions and contributions for
					 employe benefits as defined in "contributions for employe benefits" in this
					 section.
Classification
-Specific categories of jobs
					 which are performed within a "craft" as defined in this section. The term
					 includes those specific categories of jobs which are performed by a "workman,"
					 as defined in section 2(7) of the act (43 P. S. §
											165-2(17)) and this section,
					 and "apprentice," as defined in this section.
Contributions for employe benefits
-"Fringe
					 benefits" paid or to be paid, including payment made whether directly or
					 indirectly, to the workmen for sick, disability, death, other than Workmen's
					 Compensation, medical, surgical, hospital, vacation, travel expense, retirement
					 and pension benefits.
Craft
-Special skills and trades which are
					 recognized as such by custom and usage in the building and construction
					 industry.
Department
-The Department of Labor and
					 Industry of the Commonwealth.
General prevailing minimum wage rates, prevailing
					 wage rates, minimum wage rates
and
wage rates
-Rates
					 as determined by the Secretary, as payable in the locality in which the public
					 work is to be performed, for the respective crafts and classifications,
					 including the amount of contributions for employe benefits as required by the
					 act.
Locality
-A political subdivision, or
					 combination of the same, within the county in which the public work is to be
					 performed. When no workmen for which a prevailing minimum wage is to be
					 determined hereunder are employed in the locality, the locality may be extended
					 to include adjoining political subdivisions where the workmen are employed in
					 those crafts or trades for which there are no workmen employed in the locality
					 as otherwise herein defined.
Maintenance work
-The repair of existing
					 facilities when the size, type or extent of the facilities is not thereby
					 changed or increased.
Public body
-The Commonwealth of
					 Pennsylvania, its political subdivisions, authorities created by the General
					 Assembly of the Commonwealth and instrumentalities or agencies of the
					 Commonwealth.
Public work
-Construction, reconstruction,
					 demolition, alteration or repair work other than maintenance work, done under
					 contract and paid for in whole or in part out of the funds of a public body
					 where the estimated cost of the total project is in excess of $25,000. The term
					 does not include work performed under a rehabilitation or manpower training
					 program.
Secretary
-The Secretary of Labor and
					 Industry or his authorized deputy or representative.
Workman
-Includes laborer, mechanic,
					 skilled and semiskilled laborer and apprentices employed by a contractor or
					 subcontractor and engaged in the performance of services directly upon the
					 public work project, regardless of whether their work becomes a component part
					 thereof. The term does not include material suppliers or their employes who do
					 not perform services at the job site.
This section cited in 34 Pa. Code §
												9.105 (relating to determination
						of classification and general prevailing minimum wage
						rates).