City Comptroller Brad Lander has recouped about $4 million in unpaid wages with interest for workers regardless of their ...

Lawmakers in Albany are proposing to dissolve a Labor Department board created three years ago to provide oversight of prevailing wage requirements, a move that comes as they are considering lowering ...

“The Illinois prevailing wage rates are set by collective bargaining agreements, and the federal rates are as well. But there is a ‘lag time’ and that could be as long as two, three or even ...

Prevailing wages are prescribed minimum hourly rates for public projects in a given region, determined by the average pay in that area. The legislation would also dissolve the Public Subsidy Board ...

Under the legislation, private projects receiving at least 20% in public funding would fall under set pay standards.