February 26, 2014
02/27/14 The Indiana Department of Labor has issued notice of a Common Construction Wage meeting for the City of Plymouth and Marshall County.
Since its adoption in 1935, Indiana’s prevailing wage law, now the Common Construction Wage Act, has established the minimum wage rates paid to construction workers on Indiana’s public works projects.
Wages are adopted in a public hearing of Common Construction Wage committees with members for this meeting being Judith Stone as the County Legislative Representative, Jim Marquardt as the taxpayer representative and Don Ecker at the Industry rep. The committee is charged with determining the most commonly paid construction wages in Marshall County. (as required by the Indiana Common Construction Wage Act (IC 5-16-7-1 et seq.)
The Common Construction Wage meeting will be held at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, March 5th in room 203 of the Marshall County Building. This is a meeting that is open to the public.
The wage scale selected is the minimum pay scale. A company bidding on the projects can pay a higher scale if they want to.