Prevailing wages requirements expanded in NJ

NJ Governor Jon S. Corzine today signed an executive order regarding prevailing wage requirements for contractors who provide building services for State-leased government buildings.

The executive order ensures that prevailing wage requirements apply to situations where the State is a tenant in the building but the building owner, rather than the State, contracts for the provision of building services.

Important for wage and hour damage calculations

Provision will require:

... that the workers performing such building services shall be paid not less than the applicable prevailing wage rates as ascertained by the lessor from the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development, and that the contractor shall provide to each such worker individual written notification every six months of the prevailing wage rates for each classification involved in the contractor’s performance of building services;

Record keeping:

(i) keep accurate records showing the name, classification, and actual hourly rate of wages and any benefits paid to each worker employed by the contractor or subcontractor to perform building services in the property of premises leased by the State;
(ii) preserve those records for two years after the date of payment;
and (iii) make the contracts and the records available at all reasonable hours to the inspection of the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development and to any other party to the lease;