Bill Text: NJ A2609 | 2020-2021 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Concerns prevailing wage in certain public utilities work.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-13 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Labor Committee [A2609 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2020-A2609-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman WAYNE P. DEANGELO
District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)
SYNOPSIS
Concerns prevailing wage in certain public utilities work.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning wages paid in certain work on public utilities and amending P.L.1946, c.38.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Section 16 of P.L.1946, c.38 (C.34:13B-16) is amended to read as follows:
16. (a) The term "public utility" shall include autobusses; bridge companies; canal companies; electric light, heat and power companies; ferries and steamboats; gas companies; pipeline companies; railroads; sewer companies; steam and water power companies; street railways; telegraph and telephone companies; tunnel companies; water companies.
(b) The term "person" means any individual, firm, copartnership, corporation, company, association, or joint stock association; and includes any trustee, receiver, assignee, or personal representative thereof.
(c) The term "representative" means any person or persons, labor union, organization, or corporation designated either by a utility or group of utilities or by its or their employees to act or do for them.
(d) The term "collective bargaining" shall be understood to embody the philosophy of bargaining by employees through representatives of their own choosing, and shall include the right of representatives of employees' units to be consulted and to bargain upon the exceptional as well as the routine wages, hours, rules, and working conditions.
(e) The term "labor dispute" shall involve any controversy between employer and employees as to hours, wages, and working conditions. The fact that employees have amicable relations with their employers shall not preclude the existence of a dispute among them concerning their representative for collective bargaining purposes.
(f) The term "employee" shall refer to anyone in the service of another, actually engaged in or connected with the operation of any public utility throughout the State.
(g) The term
"construction work on a public utility" shall, in connection with the
construction of any public utility in the State, mean construction,
reconstruction, installation, replacement, demolition, restoration, and
alteration of facilities of the public utility, including meters. The
term "construction work on a public utility" shall not be construed
to include operational work, including flaggers, snow plowing, vegetation
management in and around utility rights of way, mark outs, janitorial services,
and
landscaping[, leak surveyors, meter work, and miscellaneous repairs].
(cf: P.L.2007, c.343, s.1)
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill extends prevailing wage requirements by modifying the definition of "construction work on a public utility" subject to prevailing wage requirements by specifying that such work includes the "replacement" of facilities of the public utility, that the covered "facilities of the public utility" include meters, and that "leak surveyors, meter work, and miscellaneous repairs" are deleted from the list of kinds of work that are expressly exempted from the definition of "construction work on a public utility."
