Project Labor Agreement

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Project Labor Agreement Covering Specified Construction Work Under The Capital Improvement And Restructuring Programs (2005-2009) New York City School Construction Authority and Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York and Vicinity.

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SCHEDULE A - COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS

 


FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Q: What is the rate of pay for shifts performed on the weekend?


A: PLA Weekend Wage Rates - Under the PLA, as negotiated, there are three (3) possible weekend scenarios:

  1. A Weekend Make-Up Day because of conditions beyond the control of the Contractor, such as severe weather, power failure, fire or natural disaster preventing the performance of Program Work on a regularly scheduled work day, with the mutual agreement of the Local Union on a craft-by-craft basis: Straight Time plus 5%.
  2. Weekend Shift Work, where a worker has not already worked five days (or four (4) ten-hour days on a site where the entire site is working on a four (4) ten-hour day shift) in the week: The Contract Rate -or- Time and a half straight time, whichever is LESS.
  3. Overtime Work, where a worker has already worked five days (or four ten-hour days on a site where the entire site is working on a four ten-hour day shift) in the week: The Contract Rate.

Q: How is overtime calculated?


A: Computation of Overtime (The forty (40) hour week question):

  1. For a standard five day work week, overtime is paid when a worker works:
    1. more than eight hours in a day -AND/OR-
    2. more than five days in a week regardless of how many hours worked each of those five days (e.g., after working four hours a day for each of five days for a total of only twenty hours, the worker would still be entitled to overtime for all time on any additional day worked.)

  2. When the entire job is on a four ten-hour day basis, overtime is payable when a worker works:
    1. more than ten hours in a day -AND/OR-
    2. more than four ten-hour days in the week.


    Q: How are four ten-hour day projects scheduled?


    A: The decision to work on a four ten-hour day basis must be made by agreement between the SCA, the General Contractor, and the Local Unions on a craft-by-craft basis. No individual trade(s) may be singled out on a PLA site to work a four ten-hour day straight time basis without ALL trades working on the four ten-hour day basis.


    Q: Who is permitted to work on a SCA project that is subject to the PLA?

    A: The only construction workers permitted on a PLA job site are members of one of the unions listed on the attached PLA Telephone Contact List. There are many other unions representing building and construction workers. Some of these other unions are from Long Island, Westchester and New Jersey, and others are New York City based, but they are not signatory to the PLA and therefore cannot represent any workers on a PLA job. (It also does not matter whether any of these other unions have apprenticeship programs of their own.)

    Additionally, a company that is signatory to one of these "other" unions CAN work on our PLA jobs, but the firm MUST get ALL of its workers (subject to the eighth worker provision, of course) for the trade directly from the appropriate union shown on the PLA Telephone Contact List by directly contacting and sending the union the notarized single page affidavit. The firm must also send a copy of that original affidavit with each weekly or monthly supplemental benefit check payment sent to the union.


    Again, O N L Y workers who are members of one of the unions listed on the attached PLA Telephone Contact List may perform construction work on our PLA sites.


    Click here to view the PLA Contact List

    For further information, please contact:

    Steven Levine
    Labor Law Compliance
    NYCSCA
    30-30 Thomson Ave
    LIC, New York 11101
    (718) 472-8060
    slevine@nycsca.org