1) When is the prevailing wage rate used?
2) What is the definition of a public works or related projects?
3) Are there project monetary thresholds?
4) Are any types of projects specifically exempted?
5) What is included in the calculation of wage rates?
6) Who calculates the prevailing wage rates?
7) Enforcement: what are the penalties for violations? Criminal or fines?
8) Can contractors be debarred?
9) Are there posting requirements?
10) Does the agency retain any fines for enforcement (i.e. an enforcement fund)?
11) Record Maintenance?
12) Are there any provisions which discuss apprentices?



ILLINOIS

11) Record Maintenance?

A.) Section 5 states that, "The contractor and each subcontractor or the officer of the public body in charge of the project shall make and keep, for a period of not less than 3 years, true and accurate records of the name, address, telephone number when available, social security number, and occupation of all laborers, workers and mechanics employed by them, in connection with said public work...the actual hourly wages paid in each pay period to each employee and the hours worked each day in each work week by each employee...starting and ending times of work for each employee. The record shall be open at all reasonable hours to the inspection of the public body awarding the contract, its officers and agents, and to the Director of Labor and his deputies and agents."

B.) Section 6 states that "any officer who omits the above information or who refuses to allow access is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor."

REFERENCES
* All of the information given above is taken directly from the Illinois Prevailing Wage Act.


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