FAQs

PLA Weekend Wage Rates - Under the PLA, as negotiated, there are three possible weekend scenarios:

1. A Weekend Make-Up Day because of conditions beyond the control of the Contractor, such as severe weather, power failure, fire or natural disaster preventing the performance of Program Work on a regularly scheduled work day, with the mutual agreement of the Local Union on a craft-by-craft basis: Straight Time plus 5%.
2. Weekend Shift Work, where a worker has not already worked five days (or four ten-hour days on a site where the entire site is working on a four ten-hour day shift) in the week: That trade's normally applicable weekend shift rate -or- Time and a half straight time, whichever is LESS.
3. Overtime Work, where a worker has already worked five days (or four ten-hour days on a site where the entire site is working on a four ten-hour day shift) in the week: That trade's normally applicable overtime rate.

Computation of Overtime (The forty hour week question):

1.   For a standard five day work week, overtime is paid when a worker works:

• more than eight hours in a day -AND/OR-
• more than five days in a week regardless of how many hours worked each of those five days (e.g., after working four hours a day for each of five days for a total of only twenty hours, the worker would still be entitled to overtime for all time on any additional day worked.)

2.   When the entire job is on a four ten-hour day basis, overtime is payable when a worker works:

• more than ten hours in a day -AND/OR-
• more than four ten-hour days in the week.

The decision to work on a four ten-hour day basis must be made by agreement between the SCA, the General Contractor, and the applicable Local Unions on a craft-by-craft basis. No individual trade(s) may be singled out on a PLA site to work a four ten-hour day straight time basis without ALL trades working on the four ten-hour day basis.

The only construction workers permitted on a PLA job site are members of one of the unions listed on the attached PLA Telephone Contact List. There are many other unions representing building and construction workers. Some of these other unions are from Long Island, Westchester and New Jersey, and others are New York City based, but they are not signatory to the PLA and therefore cannot represent any workers on a PLA job. (It also does not matter whether any of these other unions have apprenticeship programs of their own.)

Additionally, a company that is signatory to one of these "other" unions CAN work on our PLA jobs, but the firm MUST get ALL of its workers (subject to the eighth worker provision, of course) for the trade directly from the appropriate union shown on the PLA Telephone Contact List by directly contacting and sending the union the Affidavit of PLA participation. The firm must also send a copy of that original affidavit with each weekly or monthly supplemental benefit check payment that is sent to the union.

Again, ONLY workers who are members of one of the unions listed on the attached PLA Telephone Contact List may perform construction work on SCA PLA sites.