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 ...

As previously discussed in our blog Inflation Reduction Act: Wage and Apprenticeship Requirements, the Inflation Reduction Act (the “IRA”) restructured the tax credit system associated with qualified ...

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 ...

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 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).

A top Labor Department official told the House Education and Workforce Committee Tuesday that the underlying data they provide to calculate wage rates under the Davis-Bacon Act had several limitations ...

A federal judge in Texas has hit pause on a rule that would effectively raise wages for workers on federally funded construction projects, nine months after the rule first went into effect. Northern ...

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 ...

Forcing federally funded public works projects to pay the so-called prevailing wage is a classic case of robbing Peter to pay Paul. The intention behind the Davis-Bacon Act, which requires any federal ...