Davis Bacon Related Acts

Fringe benefits are the usual and customary benefits paid to the prevailing wage worker on top of his basic hourly rate. Fringe benefits must include the following:

• medical and dental payments or hospital care
• pensions on retirement or death
• disability benefits and life insurance
• vacation and holiday pay
• apprenticeship or other US Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training approved training program or as approved by DOT and federal highway administration
• Annuity or other 401K plans

The apprentice must be registered in an apprenticeship program approved by the US Department of Labor, or a training program approved by the DOT.

Registered/approved training/apprenticeship programs are paid as follows:

a) during the first half of the training period, the apprentice is paid at a rate not less than 60% of the appropriate minimum journeyman’s wage rate specified within the employment contract;

b) during the period commencing upon completion of the first half of the training program and ending upon completion of 75% of the program, the apprentice is paid at a rate not less than 75% of the appropriate minimum journeyman’s wage rate specified within the employment contract

c) during the remaining portion and until completion of the training program, at a rate not less than 90% of the appropriate minimum journeyman’s wage rate specified in the employment contract.