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Senate panel advances prevailing-wage records bill after heated privacy debate
Summary
The Senate Labor & Commerce Committee voted to pass Substitute House Bill 18 21, which would require Labor & Industries to provide employer certified payroll records to specified interested parties, after extended debate over employee privacy and proposed redaction and consent amendments.
The Senate Labor & Commerce Committee on Friday voted to advance Substitute House Bill 18 21, a prevailing-wage measure that would require the Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) to provide an employer's certified payroll records to listed interested parties, including joint labor-management committees and Taft-Hartley trusts. The committee recommended the bill be sent to the rules committee; the passage was recorded by voice vote and is "subject to signatures."
The bill's sponsors say the measure is intended to help detect and deter violations in prevailing-wage contracting by giving interested parties access to payroll records. Opponents raised privacy concerns and pushed three amendments offered by Senator King that would have limited release or added protections: C.1 would have…
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