Published: February 12, 2010
Tags: A&A Environmental, Ahern Gross, Associated Builders & Contractors of Wisconsin, Associated General Contractors of Wisconsin, Badger Well Drilling, Ballwanz, Construction Business Group, DWD, Forrer, Gassman, Jim Doyle, Kahl, Masonry Restoration, Mielke, prevailing wage, Sopha, spreadsheet, Steffes, Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development
Comments: 2
By Paul Snyder
Construction companies are disputing the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development’s claim it adequately prepared the industry for changes to the state’s prevailing wage law.
The changes require contractors file monthly reports on prevailing-wage payments on public works projects valued at $25,000 or more. DWD first made the 50-field reporting spreadsheet available in January, weeks [...]
Published: February 10, 2010
Tags: Associated Builders & Contractors of Wisconsin Inc., Dane County Circuit Court, Dipko, DWD, H & N Plumbing and Heating, Henkel, injunction, law, Markson, Mielke, Ortiz, prevailing wage, report, Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development
By Paul Snyder
The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development’s stated goal of helping the industry navigate prevailing wage reporting does little for a payroll administrator in Fennimore who still is waiting for help.
On Feb. 3, with the Feb. 7 reporting deadline approaching, Mandy Henkel of H & N Plumbing and Heating Inc. sent an e-mail request [...]
Published: February 9, 2010
Tags: Baucus, benefits, Bergan, Buchen, Carpenters Local 314, debt, DWD, extension, Hixson, Hohlstein, Honadel, unemployment, Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce
Comments: 5
By Paul Snyder
The debate over how to replenish Wisconsin’s unemployment budget will grow more pointed if the federal government grants a state request to extend benefits for 99 weeks.
But matters of debt, even if the debt grows beyond the state’s $1.1 billion unemployment budget deficit, need to take a back seat to the specter of [...]
Published: February 4, 2010
Tags: Associated Builders & Contractors of Wisconsin, Carroll Electric, Dane County Circuit Court, DWD, Eckenwalder, Gassman, H & N Plumbing & Heating, Henkel, Jones, Markson, Mielke, Reesman Jr., Reesman's Excavating & Grading, Synowski, Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development
Comments: 1
By Paul Snyder
Complying with the state’s new prevailing-wage reporting law is coming at heavy costs to contractors throughout Wisconsin.
Under the state’s new prevailing-wage law, contractors are required to file monthly reports that detail prevailing-wage payments on any public works project valued at $25,000 or more. The spreadsheet the state Department of Workforce Development wants contractors [...]
Published: February 3, 2010
Tags: ABC, Associated Builders & Contractors of Wisconsin Inc., Dane County Circuit Court Judge John Markson, Department of Workforce Development, DWD, Markson, prevailing-wage report, Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development
By Paul Snyder
The state will not penalize contractors that fail to comply with the Department of Workforce Development’s new prevailing-wage reporting requirements, said Dane County Circuit Court Judge John Markson.
The suspension of enforcement will continue until April 19, when Markson is expected to grant or reject the Associated Builders & Contractors of Wisconsin Inc.’s request [...]
Published: February 3, 2010
Tags: ABC, Associated Builders & Contractors of Wisconsin, contractors, Dane County Circuit Court, DWD, injunction, Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development
The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development issued a press release late Tuesday informing contractors that the state’s prevailing wage law is still in effect.
The announcement followed a report by the Associated Builders & Contractors of Wisconsin Inc., which has filed an injunction in Dane County Circuit Court against the law. ABC said Tuesday that DWD [...]
Published: February 2, 2010
Tags: Associated Builders & Contractors Inc., Associated General Contractors of Wisconsin, Boullion, Dane County Circuit Court, DWD, Mielke, Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development
Comments: 2
By Paul Snyder
The state has temporarily suspended its new prevailing-wage reporting law, according to the Associated Builders & Contractors of Wisconsin Inc., which has filed a request for an injunction to block enforcement of the law.
But officials with the state departments of Justice and Workforce Development would not confirm the reporting requirements have been suspended. [...]
Published: January 29, 2010
Tags: Associated Builders & Contractors of Wisconsin, Associated General Contractors of Wisconsin, Boullion, Jones, Mielke, prevailing wage, reporting, Thimm, WDW, Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, Wondra Construction
Comments: 3
By Paul Snyder
Acting on industrywide confusion over the state’s new prevailing-wage requirements, the Associated Builders & Contractors of Wisconsin Inc. on Friday requested an injunction to block enforcement of the law.
“On the most basic level, it’s a bad law,” said John Mielke, ABC vice president.
ABC filed the request in Dane County Circuit Court and expects [...]
Published: January 27, 2010
Tags: apprentice, Berth, Blackman, DWD, joint apprenticeship committee, Jones, minority, participation, U.S. Department of Labor, Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership/Big Step
Comments: 1
By Sean Ryan
Those fighting for more minorities in construction apprenticeships are split over whether it will take a heavy or a helping hand to get the job done.
Paul Blackman, who last year complained to the U.S. Department of Labor about minority participation in Wisconsin construction apprenticeship programs, said he prefers a stricter approach. Blackman and [...]
To the editor:
We in the Department of Workforce Development take issue with a number of the points in your recent article on Wisconsin’s apprenticeship program. For the record, we completely support the need for racial diversity in construction apprenticeships, and since 2002, we have made progress in increasing the representation of minorities in the apprenticeship [...]
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