Tag: Prevailing Wage

ARE YOU REALLY AN APPRENTICE AND GETTING THE RIGHT RATE?

Journeyman electrician apprentice rate for prevailing wage in Massachusetts

Apprenticeships are vital components to traditional building and construction trade jobs such as carpenters, plumbers, electricians, masons, and sheet metal workers.  They provide hands-on experience in a structured work-based training environment. Under Massachusetts Prevailing Wage Law workers on certain jobs…

AM I GETTING THE RIGHT “RATE”?

Prevailing Wage Carpenter Cutting Wood 'Should I Be Getting "The Rate?" Job

Haga Clic Aquí para Español The Massachusetts Prevailing Wage Law… requires that employees working certain jobs involving the state or local cities and towns receive prevailing wage rate (often called “the rate” on job sites).  The law exists so companies…