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Calif. Prevailing Wage Law Applied to Recycling Plant Employees

January 4, 2019

Via: SHRM
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California’s prevailing wage law requires that all workers employed on “public works”—generally, construction projects—be paid at least as much as is generally paid for the performance of similar work in the same geographic area. A California appellate court has ruled that this law was not limited to construction projects and applied to workers who sorted recyclable materials at two publicly owned and operated recycling facilities.

The plaintiffs, who worked as sorters, sued a staffing company that provided employees to the two facilities under contracts with Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts, alleging, among other claims, that the defendant had failed to pay them the prevailing wage.

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