Court Opinion

ID: 9819372
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 06:23:54.816417+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:38:30.388380
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE HOLDRIDGE, specially concurring: I agree with the majority’s holding that the trial court’s grant of summary judgment to Skoog must be affirmed. I write separately only to point out that the park district clearly failed to calculate a proper prevailing wage. While the statutory scheme for challenging the park district’s prevailing wage determination apparently anticipates the Department being placed on notice when the Secretary of State is notified, such did not happen in the instant case. One would think that the Department would have the authority to challenge the park district’s determination on behalf of the injured workers at the point when the substandard wage is paid. But, as the majority points out, the statute does not allow the Department to take such action. If the Prevailing Wage Act is to have the effect it was intended, in the future, either the Department will have to be more vigilant or the Act must be changed to give the Department the necessary tools to enforce the Act.