Council Bill Would Expand Prevailing Wage Requirement

The City Council’s Committee on Housing and Buildings will review a bill Tuesday that seeks to require a prevailing wage for construction workers on certain building projects in the city.

The bill was first introduced by council member Elizabeth Crowley in spring 2015, and has now been re-referred to the committee, The Real Deal reports.

The legislation would apply to projects that get financial assistance from the city, contain more than 50 residential units, are larger than 50k SF in total size or that don’t yet have a project labor agreement.

The proposed bill goes before the committee the week after a set of construction safety bills was introduced as part of an effort to address rising construction-related deaths in the city in recent years.

Those bills include a measure that would require contractors to hire workers who have completed a state-backed apprenticeship program, effectively amounting to a requirement to hire union laborers. [TRD]

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