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News Release 082
AMEREN MUST PAY CONSTRUCTION WORKERS REBUILDING JOHNSON'S SHUT-INS STATE PARK PREVAILING WAGE
Volume 36-082 |
Contact: Connie Patterson |
(For immediate release) |
573-751-1010 |
JEFFERSON CITY, MO., FEB. 20, 2008 -- The Missouri Department of Natural Resources today said workers helping to rebuild Johnson Shut-Ins State Park must be paid prevailing wage for projects classified as construction. A major portion of the recent settlement agreement between AmerenUE and the State of Missouri involves rebuilding Johnson's Shut-Ins State Park.
The determination means workers involved in construction projects at Johnson's Shut-Ins State Park in Reynolds County are guaranteed a higher wage.
"Concerns have been raised about whether or not these construction workers should be paid prevailing wage," said Department of Natural Resources Director Doyle Childers. "We believe there is no ambiguity and that workers involved in the projects specifically classified as construction should receive the prevailing wage."
The Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations determined that several of the project's tasks fall under the state's Prevailing Wage Law. This means AmerenUE, responsible for rebuilding the park, and any of its contractors must pay its laborers engaged in actual construction prevailing wage. Each county has its own prevailing wage determination, and workers will be paid under the prevailing wage determination for Reynolds County, where the park is located.
The Department of Natural Resources routinely pays prevailing wage on its contracted construction projects in state parks and historic sites. The question of whether or not prevailing wage would be required in this case arose because, although the park is a public facility, public funds are not being used for the projects. The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations confirmed that it is a public works project, that the Department of Natural Resources retains considerable control over the work and that the construction falls under the Prevailing Wage Law.
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