Video & Transcript Research : 'prevailing wages'
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WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Labor & Workplace Standards Jan 14th, 2026 at 08:00 am
Labor & Workplace Standards
Transcript Highlights:
- or hours, then the collective bargaining agreement prevails.
- And there's also the Wage Recovery Task Force, which is working in this space as well.
- ..but again, there is the Wage Recovery Task Force, which I think...
- Also, you know, how many of these unpaid wage claims are coming from...
- We stand with the legislature to fight against wage theft and the underground economy.
Keywords:
employee monitoring, workplace privacy, performance evaluations, notification, transparency, language access, collective bargaining, providers, healthcare, interpreters, social services, construction, wage theft, misclassification, independent contractor, employee classification, fringe benefits, prevailing wages, subcontractor liability, joint and several liability
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Labor & Workplace Standards Jan 23rd, 2026 at 10:30 am
Labor & Workplace Standards
Transcript Highlights:
- The first is creating the wage recovery program and the wage recovery account.
- All civil penalties collected under the wage complaints and under the Minimum Wage Act must be deposited
- into the newly created wage recovery account.
- That wage recovery fund would be funded through penalty collection and wage recovery by the department
- Wage theft is pervasive, but disproportionately will impact low-wage workers, women, people of color,
Keywords:
unpaid wages, wage theft, wage recovery, labor standards, Department of Labor and Industries, L&I, worker protection, low-wage workers, back pay, interest on wages, civil penalties, retaliation, immigration status coercion, gig workers, transportation network companies, rideshare drivers, app-based drivers, employment law, wage complaint, payroll enforcement
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 5/6/25
Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- ,</c><01:14:46.320><c> employed</c> um they spent 950,000 in wages, employed um they spent 950,000 in
- wages, employed 21<01:14:47.440><c> individuals</c><01:14:48.400><c> and</c><01:14:48.560><c> then</
- and the price of keeping the lights on at our agencies that enforce worker protections and minimum wage
- enforce worker protections<01:18:41.199><c> and</c><01:18:41.600><c> minimum</c><01:18:42.000><c> wage
- and minimum wage laws as well<01:18:42.800><c> as</c><01:18:43.040><c> administer</c><01:18:43.679><
Keywords:
workers' compensation, insurance programs, employee protection, Minnesota statutes, safety regulations, prevailing wage, certified payroll, payroll reporting, construction contracts, public works, project registration, labor standards, contractor compliance, subcontractor reporting, state government, Department of Administration, Commissioner of Labor and Industry, Metropolitan Council, highway construction, public construction
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Labor & Workplace Standards Jan 28th, 2026 at 08:00 am
Labor & Workplace Standards
Transcript Highlights:
- House Bill 2191 is the bill that relates to workers' wages in the construction and House Bill 2191 is
- the bill that relates to workers' wages in the construction industry.
- suspend, or revoke a contractor's registration if the contractors found liable for failure to pay wages
- For failure to pay wages.
- could be recovered from them for liability of those wages.
Keywords:
transparency, industrial insurance, insurance rate increases, financial disclosure, regulatory oversight, unemployment, electronic notices, compensation, digital communication, order processing, workers' compensation, occupational disease, firefighters, fire investigators, law enforcement officers, first responders, heart disease, cardiac conditions, respiratory disease, cancer presumption
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House State Government Finance and Policy Committee 4/9/26
State Government Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:15:21.440><c> wage</c> That means cities with prevailing wage That means cities with prevailing
- ><c> prevailing</c><00:17:09.839><c> wage</c> projects with prevailing wage projects with prevailing
- </c><00:21:22.920><c> wage</c> their own local prevailing wage their own local prevailing wage ordinances
- </c><00:21:29.120><c> wage</c><00:21:29.480><c> ordinances,</c> own prevailing wage ordinances, own prevailing
- So, on every prevailing wage project.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Labor & Workplace Standards Feb 25th, 2026 at 08:45 am
Labor & Workplace Standards
Transcript Highlights:
- benefits of the potential to receive an overpayment assessment if the worker receives retroactive wages
- benefits while they're on strike and the employer, when they come back, pays them their retroactive wages
Bills:
SB6134
Keywords:
unemployment insurance, UI benefits, striking workers, strike, labor dispute, retroactive wages, overpayment assessment, overpayment recovery, Employment Security Department, ESD, claimant notice, benefit recoupment, Washington unemployment law, worker notice, federal unemployment tax credit, state unemployment fund, 904, all
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Environment, Energy & Technology Jan 20th, 2026 at 01:30 pm
Environment, Energy & Technology
Keywords:
artificial intelligence, chatbots, regulation, technology, consumer protection, pollutants, tire regulation, 6PPD, environment, public safety, SB 6076, consumer-owned utilities, public utility districts, municipal procurement, competitive bidding, public works, clean energy, renewable energy, nonemitting generation, energy storage
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Labor & Workplace Standards Jan 30th, 2026 at 10:30 am
Labor & Workplace Standards
Transcript Highlights:
- This bill gives the department discretion when enforcing wage complaints under the Wage Payment Act.
- There is one amendment. ...discretion when enforcing wage complaints under the Wage Payment Act.
- This is the wage recovery bill that comes from the wage recovery task force or work group, excuse me.
- It creates the program and creates a wage recovery account.
- We are aligning provisions from two bills on wage recovery and wage enforcement this year, one L&I request
Keywords:
labor protections, domestic workers, wage standards, employment rights, worker safety, mental health, PTSD, treatment program, research, pilot program, veteran support, trauma, healthcare funding, labor, communication, Department of Labor and Industries, workplace standards, modernization, collective bargaining, labor relations
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- There being 10 ayes, 0 nays, the motion prevails.
- There being 10 ayes, zero nays, the motion prevails.
- There being six ayes, four nays, the motion prevails.
- The motion prevails.
- Hearing none, the motion prevails.
Bills:
HB232
Keywords:
disaster recovery, natural disaster, weather disaster, emergency relief, flood relief, hurricane relief, storm damage, wildfire, tornado, hail, windstorm, extreme heat, ice storm, snowstorm, property damage, personal injury, temporary housing, relocation assistance, lost wages, state emergency management
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- There being 10 ayes, 0 nays, the bell prevails.
- There being 6 ayes, 4 nays, the motion prevails.
- There being 8 ayes, 2 nays, the motion prevails.
- There being 10 ayes, 0 nays, the motion prevails.
- There being 10 ayes, 0 nays, the motion prevails.
Bills:
HB232
Keywords:
disaster recovery, natural disaster, weather disaster, emergency relief, flood relief, hurricane relief, storm damage, wildfire, tornado, hail, windstorm, extreme heat, ice storm, snowstorm, property damage, personal injury, temporary housing, relocation assistance, lost wages, state emergency management
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- It stands to lose 461 million dollars in in lost wages so two hundred and forty five million dollars
- in and lost wages and $216 in spending power.
- complete a post-secondary credential. after high school have just a 12% chance of earning a living wage
- white people who want to take a wrecking ball to our economy and trap a class of people in poverty wages
- Even if the situation will be taken away, lost wages and spending power.
Bills:
HB232
Keywords:
disaster recovery, natural disaster, weather disaster, emergency relief, flood relief, hurricane relief, storm damage, wildfire, tornado, hail, windstorm, extreme heat, ice storm, snowstorm, property damage, personal injury, temporary housing, relocation assistance, lost wages, state emergency management
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
02/05/2026 - House Rural Economic Development
Rural Economic Development
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- rural communities, that they plan that balance, because what happened with us really drew our earning wage
- down rather than helping, and we were trying to do the good thing, and it drew our earning wage down
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Labor & Commerce Jan 19th, 2026 at 10:30 am
Labor & Commerce
Transcript Highlights:
- The legislature did a tremendous job in 2020 in protecting the rights of lower-wage and moderate-wage
- employees,” “In protecting the rights of lower-wage and moderate-wage employees.
- But the problems that they faced, higher-wage employees are also facing.
- Employees may file wage complaints with L&I, alleging violations of wage payment requirements.
- for a wage complaint.
Keywords:
noncompete, noncompetition agreement, restrictive covenant, nonsolicitation, employment contract, worker mobility, labor law, wage suppression, trade secrets, confidentiality agreement, franchise, independent contractor, employee mobility, economic growth, entrepreneurship, job mobility, restraint of trade, customer solicitation, post-employment restrictions, FTC noncompete rule
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- Department of Labor's wage and hour division.
- When these wages... ...bonus. They are compensation for extra hours worked.
- When these wages go unpaid, workers and their families feel it immediately.
- At the end of the day, recovered wages... ...burdened courts.
- But, of course, more unpaid wage claims on this sense.
Keywords:
insurance regulation, modeling organizations, financial disclosure, rate-making, predictive models, revitalization districts, construction contracts, infrastructure, municipal services, intergovernmental agreements, user fees, landowner agreements, overtime, wages, employee rights, industrial commission, complaints, adjudication, landlord, tenant
TX
Bills:
HB 842, HB 1907, HB 2844, HB 2892, HB 3439, HB 4211, HB 4536, HB 5111, HB 5138, HB 5182, HB 5247, HB 5269, HB 5323, HB 5435, HJR 201, SB 871, HB 3896, SJR 40
Keywords:
power lines, Gulf Coast, weather-related outages, Public Utility Commission, infrastructure, government contracts, Chinese companies, information technology, cybersecurity, state regulations, food safety, mobile vendors, licensing, permitting exemptions, health inspections, nonprofit organizations, personal information, government disclosure, privacy, criminal penalties
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- This bill seeks to improve procedural fairness and transparency in how wage complaints are handled on
- Currently, Chapter 2258 of the Government Code governs the enforcement of prevailing wage laws. and publicly
- The reason that this bill is so beneficial is that, first of all, in Texas, we have wage scales for all
- If there is a dispute, it could be over whether somebody is being paid the right wage, whether they're
- Hearing none, the motion prevails. The committee stands in recess.
Bills:
HB842, HB1907, HB2844, HB2892, HB3439, HB4211, HB4536, HB5111, HB5138, HB5182, HB5247, HB5269, HB5323, HB5435, HJR201, SB871, HB3896, SJR40
Keywords:
power lines, Gulf Coast, weather-related outages, Public Utility Commission, infrastructure, government contracts, Chinese companies, information technology, cybersecurity, state regulations, food safety, mobile vendors, licensing, permitting exemptions, health inspections, nonprofit organizations, personal information, government disclosure, privacy, criminal penalties
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- There being eight ayes and seven nays, the motion prevails.
- There being 15 ayes and 0 nays, the motion prevails.
- There being 15 ayes and 0 nays, the motion prevails.
- There being 14 ayes and 1 nay, the motion prevails.
- There being 15 ayes and 0 nays, the motion prevails.
Bills:
HB842, HB1907, HB2844, HB2892, HB3439, HB4211, HB4536, HB5111, HB5138, HB5182, HB5247, HB5269, HB5323, HB5435, HJR201, SB871, HB3896, SJR40
Keywords:
power lines, Gulf Coast, weather-related outages, Public Utility Commission, infrastructure, government contracts, Chinese companies, information technology, cybersecurity, state regulations, food safety, mobile vendors, licensing, permitting exemptions, health inspections, nonprofit organizations, personal information, government disclosure, privacy, criminal penalties
WA
Transcript Highlights:
- an average wage of at least $23 per hour with health care benefits.
- Some of these include compensation of workers at prevailing wage rates, procurement from and contracts
- or family wage, family living wage jobs to be offered as a result of the new facility to the city offering
- This is 1,500 family wage jobs for the state of Washington.
- wage, apprenticeship utilization, and safety requirements.
Keywords:
durable medical equipment, sales tax exemption, healthcare accessibility, cost reduction, nonprofit providers, affordable housing, real estate tax, exemption, housing policy, tax incentives, real estate excise tax, REET, growth management act, GMA, local government finance, capital facilities plan, comprehensive plan, county tax, city tax, voter approval
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Labor & Commerce Feb 2nd, 2026 at 10:30 am
Labor & Commerce
Transcript Highlights:
- This provision is used to suppress wages and ultimately prevent fair, equitable contracts.
- We can see it where wage compliance is monitored; the pricing is very different.
- Wage theft is not accidental. It is a business model. Wage theft is not accidental.
- And that's why we do support the wage recovery program.
- There are better and more targeted ways to address wage theft without hurting responsible.
Keywords:
SB 6053, domestic workers, domestic worker rights, labor protections, minimum wage, overtime, private household employment, nanny, home care worker, personal care provider, housekeeper, cleaner, cook, gardener, household manager, wage theft, retaliation, anti-discrimination, immigration status, privacy rights