{"id":275393,"date":"2026-06-23T16:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T16:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/275393\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T16:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T16:15:11","slug":"new-york-top-court-backs-workers-in-public-works-wage-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/275393\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Top Court Backs Workers in Public Works Wage Row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York employers must pay prevailing wages to laborers on public works projects, even if it\u2019s not explicitly laid out in the employment contract, New York\u2019s top court ruled Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The decision marks the first time the state Court of Appeals has addressed whether a prevailing wage promise is implied in every public works contract so that laborers can sue employers. <\/p>\n<p>The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit <a data-terminal-id=\"T2C00IGQ7L1Z\" href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/litigation\/ny-public-works-wage-dispute-sent-to-state-high-court\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sent the question<\/a> to the high court as part of a federal lawsuit accusing industrial contractor Comfort Systems USA Inc. of failing to pay prevailing wages to electrical and sprinkler &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York employers must pay prevailing wages to laborers on public works projects, even if it\u2019s not explicitly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[16964,105941,9,11,10,105943,61158,105942],"class_list":["post-275393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-breach-of-contract","tag-employment-agreements","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-prevailing-wage","tag-statutes-of-limitations","tag-third-party-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}