Legal Opinion
McGrath v. ACT, Inc.
Massachusetts District Court, Appellate Division
Decided November 25, 2008PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Williams, PJ.
The plaintiff, John McGrath, III (“McGrath”), an employee of the defendant, ACT, Inc. (“ACT”), claimed ACT did not pay him “prevailing” wages as required under the so-called prevailing wage law, G.L.c. 149, §27, for his work on public projects. ACT and its principal, Mark J. Svizzero (“Svizzero”),3 secured summary judgment on the ground that ACT was not obligated to pay McGrath a prevailing wage rate even if one applied to his work because ACT’s municipal customers had set no such rate for the projects on which McGrath worked, and the statute places no duty on such employers as…
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