DOL Appeals Semi-Block of Prevailing Wage Rule to Fifth Circuit

The Labor Department is asking the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to review a Texas court ruling that blocked parts of its Davis-Bacon prevailing wage rule from applying to suppliers and truck drivers.

On Thursday, attorneys for the DOL appealed a June preliminary injunction from the Northern District of Texas that froze parts of the rule expanding its coverage and a provision that applies prevailing wages to contracts that are silent on such requirements. US District Judge Sam R. Cummings found the agency’s 2023 prevailing wage rule’s application to “prefabrication companies, material suppliers, and truck drivers, professional ...