SBCA Members: Join us for the PWCA CRUSH IT™

Prevailing Wage Seminars July 21 & 22, 2021!

Seminar Itinerary

DAY 1

OWNERS, ESTIMATORS and/or SALESMEN (8:30 am – 12:00 pm)

• How the DIR Defines and Enforces Public Works Compliance?
• How Estimators Can Assist With Penalty Prevention
• Why The DIR Investigates Bidding Processes
• How Salesmen Can Help Avoid DIR Investigations
• Reviewing Documents For DIR-Compliance Purposes
• When Selling, Consider Strict Dir-Apprenticeship Requirements
• When Selling, Consider Co-Workers Downstream
• Why A DIR Investigation Would Go Through the Estimation
• Why Communicating Is Essential to Penalty Prevention
• When Bidding or Selling, Consider Wage-Rate Increases
• Roles and Responsibilities To Your Payroll Department
• The Four-Part Puzzle to The Labor Law
• What Must Estimators Do to Comply with the Law?
• The Certified Payroll’s 5-PART Puzzle
• Getting All the Prevailing Wage Pieces to Come Together
• Penalty-Prevention Pointers for Sales and Estimators

 OWNERS and PROJECT MANAGERS (1:00 pm – 4:30 pm)

• Audio Recording of a Client Receiving A DIR Investigation
• How PM’s Are Often the Problem That Leads to Penalties
• How Wage Theft Can Lead To A 1-year Debarment
• Public Works Violations Can Suspend Contractors’ Licenses
• Understanding the Skilled and Trained Workforce Works
• CAC-Mandated Documents Regarding Apprentices
• Understanding DIR Wage Determination Symbols
• Schedule of Penalties for Failure to File DAS 140 & 142’s
• The 10 “Thou Shalt Nots” Regarding Apprentices

DAY 2

HR / ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF (8:30 am – 4:30 pm)

• Review the six certified payroll puzzle packets
• Open Discussion on Compliance Challenges
• Eight Strategic Communication Tactics with the DIR
• Labor Code: What is Public Works and What is Not
• Ten Common Ways HR Miscalculates Certified Payroll
• How to Be Compliant With the Apprentice 5-to-1 Ratio
• What To Do When the GC Fails to Give A DIR Number
• Labor Code 1776(c) Regarding Form A-1-131
• How to Navigate a Public Works Contract for Compliance
• California vs. Federal Prevailing Wage Mandates
• Skilled and Trained Workforce Procedures, Step-by-Step
• The Four-Part Puzzle to the Labor Law HR Needs To Know
• The Certified Payroll’s 5-PART Puzzle
• Getting All the Prevailing Wage Pieces to Come Together
• Warnings About General Contractors and Awarding Bodies?
• Wage Determination, dir.ca.gov– 6 Stage
• Navigate the DIR’s Website