* 1. Every contractor shall pay a service employee under a contract for building service work a wage of not less than the prevailing wage in the locality for the craft, trade or occupation of the service employee. * NB Effective until June 6, 2020 * 1. Every contractor shall pay a service employee under a contract for building service work a wage of not less than the prevailing wage in the locality for the craft, trade or occupation of the service employee. Covered utilities shall ensure that all building service employees performing building service work at a covered utility location regardless of the employing entity are paid no less than the prevailing wage. * NB Effective and Repealed June 6, 2020 * 1. Every contractor shall pay a service employee under a contract for building service work a wage of not less than the prevailing wage in the locality for the craft, trade or occupation of the service employee. * NB Effective June 6, 2020 * 2. The obligation of a contractor to pay prevailing supplements may be discharged by furnishing any equivalent combinations of fringe benefits or by making equivalent or differential payments in cash under rules and regulations established by the fiscal officer. * NB Effective until June 6, 2020 * 2. The obligation of a contractor or covered utility to pay prevailing supplements may be discharged by furnishing any equivalent combinations of fringe benefits or by making equivalent or differential payments in cash under rules and regulations established by the fiscal officer. * NB Effective and Repealed June 6, 2020 * 2. The obligation of a contractor to pay prevailing supplements may be discharged by furnishing any equivalent combinations of fringe benefits or by making equivalent or differential payments in cash under rules and regulations established by the fiscal officer. * NB Effective June 6, 2020 * 3. Each contract for building service work shall contain as part of the specifications thereof a schedule of the wages required to be paid to the various classes of service employees on such work, and each such contract shall further contain a provision obligating the contractor to pay each employee on such work not less than the wage specified for his craft, trade or occupation in such schedule. * NB Effective until June 6, 2020 * 3. Each contract for building service work shall contain as part of the specifications thereof a schedule of the wages required to be paid to the various classes of service employees on such work, and each such contract shall further contain a provision obligating the contractor to pay each employee on such work not less than the wage specified for his craft, trade or occupation in such schedule. Any lease, contract for management services or any other contract pertaining to the provision of building services at a covered utility location entered into by a covered utility shall contain the following provision: "All building service employees shall be paid no less than the prevailing wage as provided by the fiscal officer as described in section two hundred thirty-four of the labor law. Any covered employer as defined in section two hundred thirty of the labor law shall maintain all records relating to the employment of building service workers as described in section two hundred and thirty-three of the labor law which are to be provided to the covered utility. This requirement shall apply to any covered utility location as provided by article nine of the labor law." * NB Effective and Repealed June 6, 2020 * 3. Each contract for building service work shall contain as part of the specifications thereof a schedule of the wages required to be paid to the various classes of service employees on such work, and each such contract shall further contain a provision obligating the contractor to pay each employee on such work not less than the wage specified for his craft, trade or occupation in such schedule. * NB Effective June 6, 2020

1. 4. The public agency, or appropriate officer or agent thereof, whose responsibility it is to prepare or direct the preparation of the plans and specifications for a contract for building service work, shall ascertain from such plans and specifications the classifications of employees to be employed on such work and shall file a list of such classifications with the fiscal officer, together with a statement of the work to be performed. The fiscal officer shall determine the crafts, trades and occupations required for such work and shall make a determination of the wages required to be paid in the locality for each such craft, trade or occupation. A schedule of such wages shall be annexed to and form a part of the specifications for the contract prior to the time of the advertisement for bids on such contract and shall constitute the schedule of wages referred to in subdivision three of this section.
2. 5. Upon the award of a contract for building service work by a public agency other than a city, the contracting public agency shall immediately furnish to the commissioner: (a) the name and address of the contractor to whom the contract was awarded; (b) the date when the contract was awarded; and (c) the approximate consideration stipulated for in the contract. * 6. No later than the first day upon which work on said contract is performed by any employee, the contractor shall post in a prominent and accessible place on the site of the work a legible statement of the wages to be paid to the workmen employed thereon. * NB Effective until June 6, 2020 * 6. No later than the first day upon which work on said contract is performed by any employee, or within sixty days of the effective date of a chapter of the laws of two thousand nineteen that amended this subdivision the contractor or covered utility shall post in a prominent and accessible place on the site of the work a legible statement of the wages to be paid to the workmen employed thereon. * NB Effective and Repealed June 6, 2020 * 6. No later than the first day upon which work on said contract is performed by any employee, the contractor shall post in a prominent and accessible place on the site of the work a legible statement of the wages to be paid to the workmen employed thereon. * NB Effective June 6, 2020

3. 7.

   1. (a) An apprentice in a craft or trade may be permitted to work at a wage lower than that established for the journeymen in such craft or trade only if all of the following conditions have been met:

      1. (1) such apprentice has been individually registered in an apprenticeship program which is duly registered with the industrial commissioner in conformity with the provisions of article twenty-three of this chapter;
      2. (2) such apprentice's registration occurred prior to his employment as an apprentice on such service work; and
      3. (3) written proof of such individual registration is submitted to the contracting public agency prior to such apprentice's employment as an apprentice. The proof submitted shall include evidence of the appropriate ratios and apprentice's wage rates.

   2. (b) In no event shall the ratio of apprentices to journeymen employed on such service work be greater than the lesser of the following ratios:

      1. (1) the ratio permitted in the apprenticeship program approved by the industrial commissioner; or
      2. (2) the ratio prevailing in the locality where the service work will be performed.
   3. (c) The rate of wages established for apprentices shall be the prevailing rate as determined in accordance with this article. * 8. This section shall not preempt any public agency from establishing higher minimum wages for employees performing building service work at covered utilities. Nor shall any covered utility be preempted from paying higher than the prevailing wage. * NB Effective and Repealed June 6, 2020