Rhode Island § 37-13-11 § 37-13-11. Posting of prevailing wage rates.

Rhode Island Statutes

§ 37-13-11 — § 37-13-11. Posting of prevailing wage rates.

Rhode Island § 37-13-11

Title 37Public Property and Works

Ch. 37-13Labor and Payment of Debts by Contractors

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R.I. Gen. Laws § 37-13-11 (2026).

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§ 37-13-11. Posting of prevailing wage rates.
Each contractor or provider awarded a contract for public works or school transportation
            services with a contract price in excess of one thousand dollars ($1,000), and each
            subcontractor who performs work on those public works, shall post in conspicuous places
            on the project, where covered workers are employed, posters that contain the current,
            prevailing rate of wages and the current, prevailing rate of payments to the funds
            required to be paid for each craft or type of worker employed to execute the contract
            as set forth in §§ 37-13-6 and 37-13-7, and the rights and remedies of any employee described i

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§ 37-13-11. Posting of prevailing wage rates.

Each contractor or provider awarded a contract for public works or school transportation services with a contract price in excess of one thousand dollars ($1,000), and each subcontractor who performs work on those public works, shall post in conspicuous places on the project, where covered workers are employed, posters that contain the current, prevailing rate of wages and the current, prevailing rate of payments to the funds required to be paid for each craft or type of worker employed to execute the contract as set forth in §§ 37-13-6 and 37-13-7, and the rights and remedies of any employee described in § 37-13-17 for nonpayment of any wages earned pursuant to this chapter. Posters shall be furnished to contractors and subcontractors by the director of labor and training, who shall determine the size and context thereof from time to time, at the time a contract is awarded. A contractor or subcontractor who fails to comply with the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall pay to the director of labor and training one hundred dollars ($100) for each calendar day of noncompliance as determined by him or her. Contracts set forth in this section shall not be awarded by the state, any city, town, or any agency thereof until the director of labor and training has prepared and delivered the posters to the division of purchases, if the state or any agency thereof is the proper authority, or to the city, town, or an agency thereof, if it is the proper authority, and the contractor to whom the contract is to be awarded.

Legislative History

G.L. 1938, ch. 290, §§ 9, 10; P.L. 1955, ch. 3580, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 37-13-10; P.L. 1965, ch. 77, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 37-13-11; P.L. 1974, ch. 237, § 1; P.L. 2005, ch. 402, § 1; P.L. 2021, ch. 292, § 3, effective July 9, 2021; P.L. 2021, ch. 293, § 3, effective July 9, 2021.