Fort Ord Reuse Authority: prevailing wages.

Existing law authorizes specified local agencies to establish the Fort Ord Reuse Authority as a public corporation of the state and authorizes the authority's board to adopt the Fort Ord Reuse Plan, as specified. Existing law requires the board of the authority to prepare, adopt, review, revise from time to time, and maintain a plan for the future use and development of the territory occupied by Fort Ord. Existing law defines the term "public works" for purposes of requirements regarding the payment of prevailing wages, the regulation of working hours, and the securing of workers' compensation for public works projects. Existing law requires that, except as specified, not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages, determined by the Director of Industrial Relations, be paid to workers employed on public works projects. Existing law authorizes the Labor Commissioner to issue civil wage and assessment penalties to a contractor or subcontractor that fails to pay prevailing wages in connection with a public work. This bill would deem as public works any work performed within the territory of Fort Ord if the contractor or subcontractor is required to pay prevailing wages pursuant to a resolution of the Fort Ord board, deed restriction, or covenant. The bill would authorize the Labor Commissioner, for the purpose of enforcing compliance with specified prevailing wage and payroll record provisions, to issue civil wage and assessment penalties to a contractor or subcontractor that performed work subject to the provisions of the bill. The bill would apply these provisions to work performed before the effective date of these provisions. The bill would require all contractors and subcontractors performing work subject to these provisions to register with the Department of Industrial Relations, as specified.