Union School District of Keene v. Commissioner of Labor

RSA ch. 280 is entitled Minimum wages of employees in public works. Section 1 provides in part as follows: “The rate per hour of the wages paid to mechanics, teamsters, chauffeurs, and laborers employed in the construction of public works by the State of New Hampshire or by a county or town . . . shall not be less than the rate or rates of wages to be determined by the Commissioner of Labor as hereinafter provided; provided, that the wages paid [to the above described employees] employed on said works shall not be less than the wages paid to said employees in the municipal service of the town…