Oregon Court: Prevailing Wages Don't Apply to "Private" Component of Public/Private Partnership
How far do the prevailing wage rules go when a government entity teams up with a private developer to build a public/private project? It's a question on the minds of many developers. Under this Oregon ruling, the prevailing wage rules stop where the public part of the money stops -- here, the construction of a hotel with private funds was exempt from prevailing wage rules even though the hotel was built on the same block and by the same contractor as the public component (a convention center).
