2007-012A - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

contracting officer or will notify the contracting officer within the 30-day period that additional time is necessary e. The wage rate (including fringe benefits where appropriate) determined pursuant to paragraph 2c or 2d of this Section IV shall be paid to all workers performing work in the additional classification from the first day on which work is performed in the classification . f. * The U .S . Department of Labor Wage Rates applicable to this contract are listed in Wage Rate Decision Number FL32, as modified up through ten days prior to the bid opening . The Wage Tables are included in this document. Review the Wage Tables for all classifications necessary to complete the project. If needed , request additional classifications needed prior to bid opening . General guidance on the use of Wage Tables is available on the FDOT website at www.dot.state .fl .us/construction/wage .htm . The FDOT Wage Rate Coordinator may be contacted at 850-414-4251 . (3) Payment of Fringe Benefits: a. Whenever the minimum wage rate prescribed in the contract for a class of laborers or mechanics includes a fringe benefit which is not expressed as an hourly rate , the contractor or subcontractors , as appropriate, shall either pay the benefit as stated in the wage determination or shall pay another bona fide fringe benefit or an hourly case equivalent thereof. b. If the contractor or subcontractor, as appropriate, does not make payments to a trustee or other third person , he/she may consider as a part of the wages of any laborer or mechanic the amount of any costs reasonably anticipated in providing bona fide fringe benefits under a r plan or program , provided , that the Secretary of Labor has found, upon the written request of the contractor, that the applicable standards of the Davis-Bacon Act have been met. The Secretary of Labor may require the contractor to set aside in a separate account assets for the meeting of obligations under the plan or program . • (4) Apprentices and Trainees (Programs of the U.S. DOL) and Helpers: a. Apprentices: 1 . Apprentices will be permitted to work at less than the predetermined rate for the work they performed when they are employed pursuant to and individually registered in a bona fide apprenticeship program registered with the DOL, Employment and Training Administration , Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training, or with a State apprenticeship agency recognized by the Bureau, or if a person is employed in his/her first 90 days of probationary employment as an apprentice in such an apprenticeship program , who is not individually registered in the program , but who has been certified by the Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training or a State apprenticeship agency (where appropriate) to be eligible for probationary employment as an apprentice. 2 . The allowable ratio of apprentices to journeyman-level employees on the job site in any craft classification shall not be greater than the ratio permitted to the contractor r as to the entire work force under the registered program . Any employee listed on a payroll at an apprentice wage rate, who is not registered or otherwise employed as stated above, shall be paid not less than the applicable wage rate listed in the wage determination for the classification of work actually performed . In addition, any apprentice performing work on the job site in excess of the ratio permitted under the registered program shall be paid not less than the applicable wage rate on the wage determination for the work actually performed . Where a contractor or subcontractor r is performing construction on a project in a locality other than that in which its program is registered , the ratios and wage rates (expressed in percentages of the r 9 MOW 9:5429 AM rw