Wright v. Herb Wright Stucco, Inc.

Cardamone, J. P., and Hancock, Jr., J. (dissenting).

It has long been the policy of this State that workers on public projects be paid according to the prevailing rate of wage in the locality (L 1894, ch 622, § 1). Subsequent to 1894 contractors doing business in the public sector were required to include in the contract with the public owner a provision that they would pay their employees the prevailing rate of wage. Until 1927 there was no special method by which employees could enforce this obligation. In that year the Legislature established a statutory remedy by which an interested party…