Budget Amendment ID: FY2020-S3-991

JUD 991

Wage Theft Enforcement

Ms. Jehlen, Messrs. Eldridge, Feeney and deMacedo, Ms. DiZoglio, Messrs. Moore, Welch, Brady, Crighton, Keenan and Lesser, Ms. Gobi, Messrs. Fattman, Collins, Hinds, Timilty and O'Connor moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, in item 0810-0045, by inserting the following:-

“; provided further, that not less than $500,000 shall be expended to establish and operationalize a specialized prevailing wage and construction investigatory and enforcement unit within the wage enforcement program. This specialized unit shall consist of a minimum of two investigators assigned to Eastern Massachusetts, two investigators assigned to Central Massachusetts and two investigators assigned to Western Massachusetts and the specialized unit shall be supervised by a minimum of one ‘supervising investigator’ and one assistant attorney general in the wage enforcement program’s Boston office with significant experience investigating violations of the Commonwealth’s prevailing wage and construction laws. This specialized unit through the Attorney General’s office shall submit a report on its annual enforcement actions and violation trends within the construction industry to the legislature no later than March 1, 2020”;

In said section 2, in said line item 0810-0045, by striking out the figures “$4,486,986” and inserting in place thereof the figures “$4,986,986.”