COMPARISON AND CONTRAST

Comparison and Contrast of “The Service Contract Act” “The Walsh Healy Act” and “The Davis Bacon Act”

Table of Contents

Contract and Comparison1

The Service Contract Act1

Enforcement2

Wage determinations based on prevailing rates3

Wage determinations based on combine pact accords3

Application of the Fair Labor Standards Act minimum wage3

General Applicability3

Geographical coverage of the Act4

The Walsh Healy Act4

Brief History5

Details of the Act5

Statutory requirements5

Statutory exemptions under the Acts6

Regulatory exemptions of the Act6

Rulings and interpretations of the Act6

The Davis Bacon Act7

Basic Provisions/Requirements8

Employee Rights9

Notices and Posters9

Recordkeeping9

Reporting10

Penalties/Sanctions10

Compliance Assistance Available10

Contrast11

Reference12

Comparison and Contrast of “The Service Contract Act” “The Walsh Healy Act” and “The Davis Bacon Act”

Contract and Comparison

The three Acts are to very similar but have a number of differences to be kept in mind. To identify and understand these differences, it is vital to understand the three acts properly, in detail in their independent capacity. Initially it may appear the all three acts are almost identical, but it is not so. The service contract act refers to all service contracts with are worth more than $2,500 in the US and the District of Columbia. On the other hand, similar to this is the Walsh Healy Act which refers to all service contracts worth more than $10,000 in the US and the state of Columbia. Finally, the Davis Bacon Act refers to with all the contracts that are worth more than $2,000 in the US and the state of Columbia.

Aside the very noticeable differences, the Acts have a number of elements which differentiate them from each other in little ways. It is possible to say that these Acts go hand in hands covering the labor practice in the US, and complement each other in a way that the other covers the elements that first misses, and so on. To understand the differences of the Acts, and to draw comparison, and contract them, it is important to study them independently in detail.

The Service Contract Act

More commonly referred as the McNamara-O'Hara Service Contract Act (SCA), it relates to all the contracts the US or the District of Columbia enters into, supplying services to the country through the use of service employees. The contract requires all the contractors who are performing, or offering services under the federal, or the state of Columbia, worth more than twenty five hundred dollars to pay the monetary wage rates, and benefits equalizing the local trends to the service employees. All safety and health concerns and benefits are to be applied to contracts for the service employees (Charles H, 1977).

Enforcement

The WHD enforces the compensation requirements of the act within the United States DOL, while OSHA imposes the health and safety requisites within the department of labor. Details of the Act Terms with relations to the Service Contract Act are under consideration. As the act requires contractors to pay the service employees the fair pay scale, it is essential to know who qualifies to be the contractor. A contractor consists of a subcontractor at any that includes a subcontractor at any level who rules under the Act's ...