2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 31-54. Rate of wages for work on state highways.
Sec. 31-54. Rate of wages for work on state highways. The Labor Commissioner
shall hold a hearing at any required time to determine the prevailing rate of wages upon
any highway contract within any specified area on an hourly basis and the amount of
payment or contributions paid or payable on behalf of each employee to any employee
welfare fund, as defined in section 31-53, upon any classifications of skilled, semiskilled
and ordinary labor. Said commissioner shall determine the prevailing rate of wages on
an hourly basis and the amount of payment or contributions paid or payable on behalf
of each employee to any employee welfare fund, as defined in section 31-53, in each
locality where any highway or bridge is to be constructed, and the Commissioner of
Transportation shall include such rate of wage on an hourly basis and the amount of
payment or contributions paid or payable on behalf of each employee to any employee
welfare fund, as defined in section 31-53, or in lieu thereof, in cash as part of wages
each pay day, for each classification of labor in the proposal for the contract and in the
contract. The rate and the amount so established shall, at all times, be considered as the
minimum rate of wage on an hourly basis and the amount of payment or contributions
to an employee welfare fund, or cash in lieu thereof, for the classification for which it
was established. Any contractor who pays any person at a lower rate of wage on an
hourly basis or the amount of payment or contributions paid or payable on behalf of
each employee to any employee welfare fund, as defined in section 31-53, or where he
is not obligated by any agreement to make payment or contributions to the employee
welfare funds, as defined in section 31-53, and fails to pay the amount of such payment
or contributions directly to the employee as a part of his wages each pay day, than that
so established for the classifications of work specified in any such contract shall be fined
not more than two hundred dollars for each offense. The provisions of this section shall
apply only to state highways and bridges on state highways.
History: 1961 act added establishment of rate on hourly basis and provisions re employee welfare funds; 1967 act replaced references to Sec. 31-78 with references to Sec. 31-53; 1969 act replaced highway commissioner with commissioner of transportation; P.A. 97-263 increased amount of fine from one hundred to two hundred dollars.
See Sec. 7-112 re applicability of this section to construction, remodeling, etc. of public buildings by political subdivisions of state.
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