The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) has announced the location of five additional prevailing wage conferences, following its inaugural conference, which drew more than 400 participants to Washington, D.C. Each conference will be offered free of charge to employers.
Two of the five conferences will be held in August 2009. Chicago, Ill., will host the conference August 18-20, and Orlando, Fla., will host the conference August 25-27, 2009. The remaining three conferences will be held in September in San Antonio, Texas, Long Beach, Calif., and Boston, Mass., respectively. Each two-and-a-half day seminar will address prevailing wage issues as they relate to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), and will cover such topics as:- The Davis-Bacon Act and McNamara O'Hara Service Contract Act;
- The process of obtaining wage determinations and adding classifications;
- Compliance assistance and enforcement processes;
- The process of appealing wage rates, coverage, compliance determinations; and
- Contractor and agency requirements under Executive Order 11246, Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974.