Public works: payment of prevailing wage: violations.

Existing law generally requires the payment of the general prevailing rate of per diem wages to workers employed on public works projects. Under existing law, whenever a contractor or subcontractor performing a public works project is found by the Labor Commissioner to be either in violation of certain provisions of law, with intent to defraud, or in willful violation of those provisions of law, the contractor or subcontractor or a firm, corporation, partnership, or association in which the contractor or subcontractor has a substantial interest is ineligible to bid on or to receive a public works contract for specified periods of time. This bill would provide that a contractor or subcontractor performing a public works project who is found by the Labor Commissioner to be in violation of the public works law, with intent to defraud, for the first time, is ineligible to bid on or be awarded a contract for a public works project for specified periods of time, with a prescribed exception related to apprenticeship requirements, but would provide that for a 2nd violation of the public works law, with intent to defraud, the contractor or subcontractor shall be ineligible to bid on or be awarded a public works contract.