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?



PENNSYLVANIA

11) Record Maintenance?

The accurate record of employment and wage payments required to be kept and preserved by contractors and subcontractors on public work shall include at least the following information:
(1) The name, address and social security number of each workman.
(2) The craft, if applicable, the classification within each craft, and any other classification including apprenticeship, at which the workman worked. These records shall show the number of hours in each day, specified by actual calendar date, during which each workman worked and if he worked in more than one craft or classification for which different rates were payable the records shall show the number of hours in each day as aforesaid in which he worked at the different crafts or classifications. Time cards of employees shall be kept and preserved as records required by the act and this sub-chapter. In addition, the original signed indentures for each apprentice and the approvals of the Pennsylvania Apprenticeship and Training Council shall be kept. The records shall be preserved for 2 years from date of payment and shall be open at all reasonable hours for inspection by the public body awarding the contract and by the Secretary, and shall be made easily accessible within this Commonwealth within a period of 7 days from the date on which the Secretary requests in writing that these records be made so available. ' 9.109. Records and inspection

REFERENCES
1.) The Pennsylvania Code


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