Ohio Asphalt Paving, Inc. v. Ohio Department of Industrial Relations

The instant case presents this court with two issues concerning the interpretation of the prevailing wage statutes set forth in R.C. Chapter 4115: (1) whether a contractor may be liable to pay the prevailing wage to its employees under a public improvement contract, even where the public authority fails to include prevailing wage specifications in such a contract, and (2) whether R.C. 4115.13 and 4115.132 grant the Director of ODIR broad powers to inspect any payroll record relevant to an alleged violation of Ohio’s prevailing wage law. For the reasons that follow, we answer both issues in…