Bill Text: NJ S1254 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Concerns access to wage records in connection with projects subject to prevailing wage requirements.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-08 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Labor Committee [S1254 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2010-S1254-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator FRED H. MADDEN, JR.
District 4 (Camden and Gloucester)
Senator DONALD NORCROSS
District 5 (Camden and Gloucester)
SYNOPSIS
Concerns access to wage records in connection with projects subject to prevailing wage requirements.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning access to wage records in connection with certain projects subject to prevailing wage requirements and amending P.L.1963, c.150.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Section 5 of P.L.1963, c.150 (C.34:11-56.29) is amended to read as follows:
5. a. Every contractor and subcontractor shall keep an accurate record showing the name, craft or trade, [and] the actual hourly rate of wages paid to, and the actual daily, overtime and weekly hours worked by, each worker employed by him in connection with a public work, and any other records deemed necessary by the commissioner for the enforcement of P.L.1963, c.150 (C.34:11-56.25 et seq.), and such records shall be preserved for two years from date of payment. The record shall be open at all reasonable hours to the inspection of the public body awarding the contract, to any other party to the lease or agreement to lease pursuant to which the public work is done, and to the commissioner, and the contractor or subcontractor shall provide the record to the public body, which also shall make the record open at all reasonable hours to the inspection of any party to the lease or agreement to lease pursuant to which the public work is done, to the commissioner, and to any labor organization representing workers in a craft or trade employed in public work.
b. The provisions of this section shall apply to any construction or rehabilitation work in which workers are required to be paid the prevailing wage, including, but not limited to, construction or rehabilitation work subject to the "New Jersey Prevailing Wage Act," P.L.1963, c.150 (C.34:11-56.25 et seq.), section 1 of P.L.1979, c.303 (C.34:1B-5.1), section 3 of P.L.2002, c.78 (C.52:27C-73.1), sections 1, 5, 9 and 13 of P.L.2004, c.127 (C.5:12-161.3, C.18A:72A-5.1, C.26:2I-5.3, and C.40:37A-55.2), section 23 of P.L.2000, c.72 (C.18A:7G-23), or section 1 of 2003, c.62 (C.32:11E-1.9). In any case in which the public body is an authority, commission or other public entity which does not directly award the contract, but prevailing wage is required because the public body approves, provides, authorizes, facilitates or administers incentives or financial assistance in connection with the construction or rehabilitation work, the authority, commission or other public entity shall be responsible for receiving and making the wage records open pursuant to subsection a. of this section.
(cf: P.L.1990, c.27, s.4)
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires a contractor engaged in a public works contract subject to prevailing wage requirements to provide the public body awarding the contract with the wage records that the contractor is currently required to retain and make available to the public body, the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development and certain parties who have an interest in the contract.
The bill also requires the public body to make the wage records available to the commissioner, the interested parties, and any labor organization representing workers in a craft or trade employed in public work.
Finally, the bill clarifies that requirements regarding the receiving and making available of wage records by public bodies apply not only to public bodies which award public work contracts, but also to public bodies which approve, provide, authorize, facilitate or administer incentives or financial assistance in connection with construction or rehabilitation work which is subject to prevailing wage requirements.
