Ohio High court: Prevailing-wage law has limits
| By Dennis Spisak - Jun 30th, 2009 at 6:53 am EDT |
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Categories: Consumer and Worker Protection, Corporate Accountability / Workers' Rights, Economic Fairness and Security
Categories: Consumer and Worker Protection, Corporate Accountability / Workers' Rights, Economic Fairness and Security
Ohio High court: Prevailing-wage law has limits
BUSINESS FIRST OF COLUMBUS
The Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday shortened the reach of state’s prevailing wage law, ruling it applies only to companies working directly on public-improvement project sites.
The court in a 6-1 decision reinstated a Medina County trial court’s ruling in favor of Gene’s Refrigeration Heating and Air Conditioning of Medina. The company was sued by an area labor union representing an employee who worked in a fabrication shop that supplied products to a public construction project.
That employee allowed the union to mount its case in 2005, when it alleged Gene’s violated prevailing wage statutes by paying the worker and other employees supplying the project rates lower than union workers at the site.
The state law generally requires that employees working directly on government buildings and other public improvements must be paid at a rate similar to what union workers are paid for doing similar work in the region.
The Ohio 9th District Court of Appeals in Akron reversed the Medina County trial court’s decision before the dispute moved to the state Supreme Court.
Justice Paul Pfeifer was the lone dissenter in the decision.
Once again we see Ohio’s High Court rule against the lower , working, and middle class of Ohioans when it come to fair wages and pay. The Green Party opposes such court rulings!
Dennis Spisak
Mahoning Valley Green Party
Ohio Green Party
www.ohiogreens.org
www.votespisak.org/thinkgreen/
BUSINESS FIRST OF COLUMBUS
The Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday shortened the reach of state’s prevailing wage law, ruling it applies only to companies working directly on public-improvement project sites.
The court in a 6-1 decision reinstated a Medina County trial court’s ruling in favor of Gene’s Refrigeration Heating and Air Conditioning of Medina. The company was sued by an area labor union representing an employee who worked in a fabrication shop that supplied products to a public construction project.
That employee allowed the union to mount its case in 2005, when it alleged Gene’s violated prevailing wage statutes by paying the worker and other employees supplying the project rates lower than union workers at the site.
The state law generally requires that employees working directly on government buildings and other public improvements must be paid at a rate similar to what union workers are paid for doing similar work in the region.
The Ohio 9th District Court of Appeals in Akron reversed the Medina County trial court’s decision before the dispute moved to the state Supreme Court.
Justice Paul Pfeifer was the lone dissenter in the decision.
Once again we see Ohio’s High Court rule against the lower , working, and middle class of Ohioans when it come to fair wages and pay. The Green Party opposes such court rulings!
Dennis Spisak
Mahoning Valley Green Party
Ohio Green Party
www.ohiogreens.org
www.votespisak.org/thinkgreen/
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