WAGE LAW

 Give LEO the right to investigate and ascertain the wages paid by prevailing wage employers, including by entering any project covered by the law within normal hours of operation, interviewing employees and asking them to do wage surveys.

 Authorize LEO to subpoena witnesses and require the production of records, and to interview employees, supervisors and others in private without third parties present.

 Let employees or third parties le complaints, con dentially if they wish, with LEO if they have credible information that a violation may have occurred. ere will be a rebuttable presumption of retaliation if an employee has been removed from a project or not given similar overtime and work hours than before.

 Give employers and workers 14 days to appeal LEO’s determination, rst with an administrative hearing o cer and later in court.

 Require governments, contractors and subcontractors to keep payroll records and other records for at least three years.

Jimmy Greene, president of Associated Builders and Contractors of Michigan, a trade association of nonunion contractors that opposes the prevailing wage law, said the enforcement changes “took it to a whole other level.” He said he has no problem with punishing union or nonunion contractors that fail to pay prevailing wages as required, but he likened the provisions to “nooses.” ey could “drive contractors out of even considering prevailing wage jobs,” he said.

House Minority Leader Matt Hall, a Republican from Kalamazoo County’s Richland Township, said the amendments “weaponize LEO. If you’re a nonunion shop or whatever,