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The Davis–Bacon Act (DBA) requires federal construction contractors to pay “prevailing” wages. However, the Department of Labor (DOL) estimates these prevailing rates unscientifically. DBA surveys use tiny, statistically unrepresentative samples of the construction workforce. As a result, DBA rates differ markedly from true market wages. Calculating DBA rates with Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data would solve these problems. Two BLS surveys currently provide the information necessary to calculate Davis–Bacon rates:
“I think there is a connection between the exploitation that all of us at Maximus are suffering and the failure of entire social services system in the US, which has been purposefully underfunded for years, yet there is always money for illegal wars in place like Ukraine, Syria, and Iraq.”
Investigators with the department’s Wage and Hour Division determined that Woodland Moving and Warehouse Inc. and subsidiary ARL Transportation LLC failed to pay the correct prevailing wage rate, and holiday and vacation pay for some drivers under the Service Contract Act.