A fight over prevailing wages for truck drivers has come to an end after a decade of back-and-forth between White House ...

Construction projects across the country cost more than they should because of a Depression-era minimum wage law meant to apply only to federally financed public works projects. The law is being ...

The regulation, which will affect a wave of projects funded by the IIJA and other recent legislation, has triggered controversy. In a move hailed by construction unions and criticized by some ...

On August 8, 2023, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced its final rule related to the Davis-Bacon Act (the “Act”), entitled “Updating the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts Regulations.” However, ...

The U.S. construction landscape looks much different this week compared to last Friday following the amendments to the Davis-Bacon Act that went into effect on Monday. While these amendments primarily ...

I have closely followed the new initiative by the USDOL on its changing in a dramatic way the manner in which prevailing wage rates are determined. That effort, however, has, for the moment, come to ...

A federal judge has vacated key parts of the Biden administration’s 2023 expansion of Davis‑Bacon wage rules, after the U.S. Department of Labor conceded in court that the provisions went beyond what ...

On March 18, 2022, the Department of Labor (DOL) announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, which set in motion a year-and-a-half long process to modernize the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts (DBRA).

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) recently announced the issuance of the final rule, Updating the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts (DBRA), which it says will “better reflect the needs of construction ...

WASHINGTON, DC – The US Department of Labor today announced the issuance of the final rule “Updating the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts Regulation” to update regulations that implement the Davis-Bacon ...