Linde Enterprises, Inc. v. Prevailing Wage Appeals Board

KELTON, Senior Judge.

INTRODUCTION

Pursuant to Section 5 of the Pennsylvania Prevailing Wage Act (Act), all workmen employed on a “public work” project shall be paid “not less than the prevailing minimum wages.” Act of August 15,1961, P.L. 987, as amended, 43 P.S. § 165-5.1 In this ease, *311after receiving an allegation that the contractor that had been awarded the contract for the 1989 Exeter Borough Sanitary Sewer Improvements Project (“Exeter Project”) had violated the Act by falling to pay its workmen the prevailing minimum wage rates, the Acting Secretary of Labor and Industry (Secretary)…