California Court of Appeal

In an action challenging the Director of Industrial Relations for the State of California's administrative rulings that a low-income housing project developed by plaintiff was a "public work" within the meaning of Labor Code section 1720 and was not subject to a statutory exception to the usual requirement for payment of prevailing wages on a public works, the trial court's denial of petition for writ of mandate is affirmed where: 1) the subject project failed to qualify for the section 1720(c)(4) exemption from the prevailing wage law because its public funding did not consist solely of redevelopment housing funds, as required by the unambiguous words of the statute; and 2) the project failed to qualify for the section 1720(c)(6)(E) exemption because it relied on public funding other than low-interest public loans, which is not allowed under the unambiguous words of the statute.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/15/2012
• Published 06/15/2012

Judges

• CODRINGTON

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel