Episcopal Retirement Homes, Inc. v. Ohio Department of Industrial Relations

By its terms, Ohio’s prevailing wage law applies to all construction projects that are “public improvements” as defined in R.C. 4115.03(C): “ ‘Public improvement’ includes all buildings, roads, streets, alleys, sewers, ditches, sewage disposal plants, water works, and all other structures or works constructed by a public authority of the state or any political subdivision thereof or by any person who, pursuant to a contract with a public authority, constructs any structure for a public authority of the state or a political subdivision thereof. * * * ”

Thus, a project must be constructed…