Services

Labor Compliance

Buchanan & Associates is a highly skilled consulting firm that provides labor compliance oversight, monitoring, and reporting for Public Works Contractors, Sub Contractors & Contract Providers.

We Provide The Following:

  • Conduct "kick-off" meetings with Prime Contractors to explain the public works contract providers' Labor Compliance and Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Participation programs as well as articulating Primes' responsibilities under those programs.
  • Prepare Project Labor Standards Enforcement Files (related to payroll data) and maintain project files for Contracts pertaining to prevailing wages.
  • Serve as expert witness for contractors, sub-contractors, and contract owners (plaintiff or defendant) in state and federal labor compliance and prevailing wage violation cases.
  • Conduct job site inspections and interview workers for labor compliance.
  • Identify potential labor compliance claim issues before they arise and investigate probable violations and complaints of underpayment.
  • Conduct on-site investigations to resolve worker complaints and other identified prevailing wage violations as required.
  • Verify the registration of apprentices with appropriate federal and state agencies in the crafts or trades being performed.
  • Collect and confirm proof of payment from employer of training fund contributions.
  • Conduct labor compliance audits.
  • Review the status of the Contractor's submission of payroll records, and recommend retention for delinquent and/or inadequate certified payroll records.
  • Prepare discrepancy notices on a monthly basis as a result of contractors' violation of prevailing wage, labor compliance, and contract compliance requirements.
  • Perform Federal Davis-Bacon and Related Acts and California Prevailing Wage Laws Labor Compliance oversight, monitoring, and reporting, site interviews and observations, withholding calculations, including preparation of Notices on behalf of the public works contract providers and preparation and delivery of close-out summary.
  • Review reports and prepare discrepancy notices as may be required.
  • In conjunction with the monthly performance reports, draft and disseminate discrepancy notices to Contractors, include recommendations for penalties and payment withholding as appropriate by the program guidelines.
  • Conduct spot audits to ensure accuracy of previously submitted reports.