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West Virginia

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TexasTowelie

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Mon Aug 28, 2017, 04:24 AM Aug 2017

Proposal to keep West Virginia workers pay on public projects secret debated [View all]

Legislators Tuesday debated a proposal to keep secret how much workers are paid when they’re hired for publicly funded projects.

Bryan Hoylman, president of Associated Builders and Contractors, argued that making the data available to the public invades workers’ privacy and amounts to revealing proprietary information.

“That information is proprietary and is a trade secret,” Hoylman told a legislative interim committee.

Hoylman said disclosing wages of employees working on publicly funded projects was necessary when state law required contractors to pay state prevailing wages, but isn’t needed since the prevailing wage law was repealed last year.

Read more: http://www.wvgazettemail.com/news-politics/20170822/proposal-to-keep-wv-workers-pay-on-public-projects-secret-debated

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