State ex rel. Department of Labor & Industrial Relations v. SKC Electric, Inc.

COVINGTON, Judge.

The State of Missouri through the Division of Labor Standards of the Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations (the department) sued the defendants, SKC Electric, Inc., Midwest Titan, the American Insurance Company, and the Kansas City Missouri School District, alleging that SKC did not pay prevailing wages to its employees on a public construction project, as required by the prevailing wage law, sections 290.210 to 290.340, RSMo 1994.1 The issues are whether the department is authorized to sue for back wages owed to the employees and whether the department is…