FAQs

PLA Weekend Wage Rates - As negotiated under the PLA, , there are three possible weekend scenarios:

1. Weekend Make-Up Day: Conditions beyond the control of the contractor, such as severe weather, power failure, fire, or natural disaster, etc. prevent 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: 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: The trade's normally applicable weekend shift rate *or* time and a half straight time, whichever is LESS.
3. Overtime Work: 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: The trade's normally applicable overtime rate.

Computation of overtime:

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. For example: after working four hours a day for each of five days for a total of only twenty hours, the worker would 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 on a PLA site can 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 jobsite are members of one of the unions listed in the below PLA Telephone Contact List. There are other unions that represent building and construction workers from Long Island, Westchester, New Jersey, and others from New York City but they are not signatory to the PLA and therefore cannot represent any workers on a PLA job. 

A firm that is signatory to one of these non-PLA unions can work on SCA PLA jobs, but the firm MUST get ALL of its workers (subject to the eighth worker provision) 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 the original affidavit with each supplemental benefit check payment that is sent to the union.

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.