City of El Centro v. Lanier

Opinion

McINTYRE, J.

In 2013, the Legislature adopted Labor Code section 1782, which prohibits a charter city from receiving or using state funding or financial assistance for a public construction project if the city has a charter provision or ordinance that authorizes a contractor to not comply with the state prevailing wage laws. (Lab. Code, § 1782, subd. (a), added by Stats. 2013, ch. 794, § 2.) (Undesignated statutory references are to the Labor Code.) In this case, we affirm a judgment upholding the constitutionality of section 1782 against a “home rule” challenge brought by a number of…