The Administrator specifies the minimum monetary wages and fringe
benefits to be paid as required under the Act in two types of
determinations:
(a) Prevailing in the locality. (1) Determinations that set forth
minimum monetary wages and fringe benefits determined to be prevailing
for various classes of service employees in the locality (sections
2(a)(1) and 2(a)(2) of the Act) after giving ``due consideration'' to
the rates applicable to such service employees if directly hired by the
Federal Government (section 2(a)(5) of the Act).
(2) The prevailing wage determinations applicable to most contracts
covered by the Act are based upon cross-industry survey data. However,
in some cases the Department of Labor may issue industry specific wage
determinations for application to specific types of service contracts.
In addition, the geographic scope of contracts is often different and
the geographic scope of the underlying survey data for the wage
determinations applicable to those contracts may be different.
Therefore, a variety of different prevailing wage determinations may be
applicable in a particular locality. The application of these different
prevailing wage determinations will depend upon the nature of the
contracts to which they are applied.
(b) Collective Bargaining Agreement--(Successorship).
Determinations that set forth the wage rates and fringe benefits,
including accrued and prospective increases, contained in a collective
bargaining agreement applicable to the service employees who performed
on a predecessor contract in the same locality. (See sections 2(a)(1)
and (2) as well as 4(c) of the Act.)
