[CPEO-BIF] Prevailing wages for Ohio projects

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Strickland rolls out new prevailing wage rules

Business Courier of Cincinnati
September 10, 2008

Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland has published new prevailing-wage guidelines 
that labor groups like and business groups do not.

The new rules, intended to clarify how state law is to be interpreted, 
generally call for prevailing wage rates to be paid to all workers on 
all construction projects that receive public funding for any phase of 
the project. Critics say it will expand the use of prevailing wage and 
make it harder to create new jobs.

...

The new rules, slated to take effect Oct. 15, are expected to change the 
landscape for brownfield redevelopment projects, where public funds are 
often used for environmental cleanup work. In the past, many developers 
have avoided prevailing wage by privately financing commercial 
properties on brownfield sites. In the future, brownfield projects where 
a developer is selected before cleanup grants are awarded would be 
subject to prevailing wage statutes.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2008/09/08/daily33.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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