Prevailing Wage Fundamentals

This one-day course is designed to serve as the core course of AGC’s Prevailing Wage/Davis Bacon Certificate Program. It focuses as much on the HOW of California Prevailing Wage/Federal Davis Bacon Compliance as the WHY. Officials from government, an apprenticeship program, and a fringe benefits program help present this important day of learning.

Davis Bacon Act Requirements

- Why Davis Bacon?
- Relationship to State Prevailing Wage Laws
- Reporting Requirements
- Federal Compliance Enforcement
- Penalties for Non-Compliance

California Requirements

- Applicable California Labor Codes
- Making sense of the Bureaucracy
- Differences between the State and Federal requirements
- Private projects using public funds
- Subcontractors and Prevailing Wages
- Reporting Requirements (Forms and Reports)
- State Compliance Enforcement
- Common Issues
- Travel Time
- Overtime

Wage Determinations & Worker Classifications

- What is a Wage Determination?
- How are Workers Classified on Prevailing Wage Projects?
- How to access and understand Federal Wage Determinations
- How to Access and Understand State Wage Determinations
- Record Keeping – Daily Time Sheets
- What to do When Workers Perform Many Tasks in the Same Day
- When in Doubt?
- Petitioning for Labor Classifications
- Working with Labor Compliance Programs
- What is a Labor Compliance Program?
- Third Party LCPs
- Why so much Difference?
- Learning to work successfully with any LCP