US Department of Labor to offer compliance seminar on prevailing wage requirements for federal construction and service contracts

MINNEAPOLIS – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division will offer a comprehensive compliance seminar for federal contractors, unions and workers to provide information on the rules governing prevailing wage requirements under the Davis-Bacon Act, McNamara-O’Hara Service Contract Act, Executive Order 13495 wage rules for non-displacement of qualified workers and Executive Order 13658 establishing a minimum wage for contractors.

The seminar will be held May 3-5 at the Doubletree by Hilton, Bloomington-Minneapolis South, 7800 Normandale Blvd. in Bloomington.  

“The U.S. Labor Department is committed to ensuring that all of our stakeholders – contractors, contracting officials, unions, workers and others – understand and comply with the wage and fringe benefit requirements that apply to federal and federally assisted contracts,” said Karen Chaikin, Midwest regional administrator for the Wage and Hour Division. “We are pleased to provide the contracting community with this free prevailing wage seminar that is a key component of the division’s ongoing effort to foster good jobs through increased awareness and enhanced compliance of federal prevailing wage requirements.”

Check-in for the conference will be from 7 to 9:30 a.m. on May 3, with the program running from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. that day. On May 4 and 5, the seminar will run from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Seminar attendance is free; however, preregistration is required. Registration can be completed through the online registration link at Minneapolis Prevailing Wage Seminar.

For more information on DRBA, SCA and other federal wage laws related to government contracts administered by the Wage and Hour Division, call the department’s toll-free helpline at 866-4US-WAGE (487-9243) or visit the agency’s website at http://dol.gov/whd/.