1. Trends and Issues of Concern for the Construction Community

2. Let’ s Start with Good News
Proposal to put “on-call” or predictive scheduling in place
Would have required you to give 14 day schedule and pay wages if you added/cancelled a shift
Originally did not exclude weather related industries
Good news: Yesterday the Department of Labor removed the proposed regulations from consideration and implementation

3. Governors Budget: M/WBE Requirements
Governor has once again included this in his budget documents
53% M/WBE goal
Removes reference to 2010 study and states “most recent” study which claimed the 53%
10% bid preference to M/WBE
Goals now imposed on Local Governments and state funded entities
No more public reporting on waivers & utilization
Grants unbridled power to debar contractors for non-compliance
Most egregious: removes reference to agency goals and relies only on the study to set goals
Eliminates the current statutory provision requiring contract specific goals set by a defined study for each contract

4. Legalization of Recreational Marijuana
Governor has proposed to legalize
Estimated revenue of $300M
Concerns are expansive:
No day of testing
Toxicity and recency too hard to determine
High risk industries are not excluded
Public safety
Employers must be allowed to have a zero tolerance policy
General liability insurance is already tough to find and costly

5. Extending Prevailing Wage to Private Work
S.1947 / A.1261 (Ramos/Bronson)
Seeks to change the definition of “public work”
The new definition would apply to projects that receives any form of financial assistance
That includes: IDA pilots, REDC funds, NYSERDA, SBA Loans, SAM (DASNY), CDBG, Brownfields, etc.
Much of the work would now be subject to the prevailing wage
Would include custom fabrication, pre-construction work, post-construction work and hauling
This is a quality of life issue
NY is already too costly that’s why incentives are needed
100% of ZERO is ZERO

6. Q & A