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State Minimum Wage Law Applies to Charter Cities

By Geoffrey Robinson on February 28, 2019
Posted in Public Agencies

The Second District Court of Appeal has held that California’s minimum wage law is a matter of statewide concern and hence applies to charter cities as well as general law cities. Marquez v. City of Long Beach, No. B282270 (2nd. Dist., Feb. 25, 2019)

Plaintiffs, employees of the City of Long Beach, filed a…

Promised Public Subsidies Need Not Actually Be Received to Trigger Prevailing Wage

By Geoffrey Robinson on July 1, 2017
Posted in Public Agencies

A contractual commitment by a public agency to provide financial subsidies to a project triggers prevailing wage even if the subsidies are ultimately never received. Cinema West, LLC. v. Baker, 3 Cal. App. 5th 194 (2017).

Cinema West and the City of Hesperian entered into a development agreement under which Cinema West undertook to…

Charter Cities Are Exempt from Prevailing Wage Laws

By Geoffrey Robinson on July 14, 2012
Posted in Planning and Zoning

Laws of charter cities trump state law when it comes to “municipal affairs;” but state law is supreme as to matters of “statewide concern.” So is payment of prevailing wage for public works a municipal affair or a matter of statewide concern? The former, according to the California Supreme Court in State Building and Construction …

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