It also tends to promote unemployment because of the high price of the labor while discriminating against minorities in the construction industry. This act needs to be looked at again and amended so that it is more appropriate for today's times. Government expenses are at an all time high and having this act adding to those expenses is unnecessary. The act needs to be revised as to make free market competition available in the construction industry when it comes to government contracts. This would help to eliminate the excessive spending, the unemployment and the discrimination that is currently going on.
The Walsh-Healy act basically disallows suppliers of manufacturing and furnishing materials from buying such products and then raising their rates before re-selling them to the government to use on contracts over $10,000. It also requires employers with government contracts to pay prevailing wages at time and half the basic rate for hours in excess of 40 in a week. The Act requires payment of prevailing wages that have been defined by the Secretary of Labor as the same level as minimum wage under the Fair Labor Standards Act. It has also been found that the overtime requirements are essentially the same as those set down by the FLSA as well.
The good that has come from this act is that suppliers of manufacturing and furnishing materials are unable to inflate prices just because they are selling to the government. This has gone a long way in keeping prices down in an already over inflated market. It has on the other hand driven many small business suppliers out of the market because they are unable to compete with the big companies. Also in regards to requiring payment of prevailing wages it has really done nothing to accomplish the establishment of minimum wage scales on most government contracts. The National Labor Relations Board has basically stated that prevailing minimum wages are nothing more than the same as those established by the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Going forward this act needs to be amended to truly establish the minimum wage scales for government contracts as the originators of the act had intended. It also needs to establish...
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