When employers are calculating the prevailing wage for these workers, they suddenly become low skilled workers.
If you need to work, you took whatever work you could get at the then-prevailing wage.
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He also pushed for public-sector workers to be paid the prevailing wage in their region.
The Labor Department determines prevailing wage based on customary rates in specific localities, so that it varies from city to city.
The assignment: Protest a construction firm that the union says is paying below the prevailing wage to workers renovating the bank.
The Labor Department determines prevailing wage based on rates prevailing in specific localities, so that it would vary from city to city.
The prevailing wage is not the actual average wage for a given area but a calculation made by the Department of Labor.
The Labor Department would determine prevailing wage based on customary rates in specific localities, so that it would vary from city to city.
The agency is only permitted to check the LCA for completeness and obvious inaccuracies (e.g. the wage listed is below the prevailing wage).
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For many of these jobs it may be the case that without H1-B workers, the position does not exist at the prevailing wage.
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The prevailing wage requirement was meant to prevent this practice by ensuring that workers on federal projects were paid at least the locally prevailing wage.
The culprit: a little-known law that requires that the prevailing wage be paid to all workers in public works projects if even one person is paid.
The U.S. employer must pay the H-1B worker the greater of the actual compensation paid other employees in the same job or the prevailing wage for that occupation.
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Check the prevailing wage, as determined by the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL), for the position and the location of employment and be ready to pay that wage or the actual wage, if higher.
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Lott today threatened to hold up Herman's confirmation, saying he first wanted the White House to clarify the administration's position on the Davis-Bacon law, which requires federal contracts go only to those companies that pay the "prevailing wage" in their region.
What happens on the demand side of the market is not surprising: if the minimum wage exceeds the prevailing market wage (determined by supply and demand), some workers will lose their jobs or have their hours cut.
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Numerous studies have shown that when the real minimum wage is pushed above the prevailing market wage for unskilled workers, jobs are lost and others never created.
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Until recently, there was no national minimum wage in China, and local minimum wages were typically below the prevailing market wage so as not to destroy jobs and growth.
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The best argument for a small disincentive impact is that the present minimum is below the prevailing market wage for most workers.
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But beware: Many other states have similar prevailing-wage laws.
No doubt this is true, but the report would have benefited from a mention of the opposite problem in the U.S.: the existence of so-called Davis-Bacon requirements for most public works, which set the prevailing union wage scale no matter what the competitive market pay for quality work would be.
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Currently, an employer must pay H-1B visa holders the higher of the prevailing or actual wage paid to similarly employed U.S. workers in the same area.
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