Wage and Hour Division (WHD)

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ESA-WHD New Release: [04/26/2001]
Contact Name: Ted Fitzgerald
Phone Number: (617) 565-2074
Release Number: BOS 2001-048

OCEAN STATE CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTORS INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN SURVEY TO DETERMINE FEDERAL PREVAILING WAGE FOR RHODE ISLAND

BOSTON, MA — From now until August 13, 2001, the U.S. Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division is seeking the input of construction contractors, labor unions and other interested parties in Rhode Island to help determine the prevailing wage for Federally-funded and Federally-assisted highway, residential housing, commercial building and heavy construction projects in the Ocean State.

"The Davis-Bacon Act requires that contractors working on such projects pay the local prevailing wage for each job category," said Corlis L. Sellers, Northeast Regional Administrator for the Wage and Hour Division. "The Labor Department determines that rate by soliciting and analyzing information about wages and compensation paid to construction workers on similar projects in the state in which the survey is being performed.

"In order to obtain the most accurate information, we are asking construction contractors and other interested parties in Rhode Island to participate in this critical survey," she said. "Remember, your wage rate information cannot be considered if it is not submitted."

Participants will be asked to provide information on all construction projects active during the survey time frame of December 1, 1999 through November 30, 2000. Information can be submitted to the Wage and Hour Division until August 13, 2001. Sellers emphasized that all submitted information is confidential and the identity of the submitter will not be disclosed.

Detailed information about the survey, including survey forms, is available on the Labor Department's Davis-Bacon homepage at: www.dol.gov/esa/whd/programs/dbra/index.htm.

Contractors who wish to participate, or who have questions about the survey process, may contact Ms. Maria Cedrone Duffy at mduf@phi.dol-esa.gov or by calling 215-861-5832.