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Fairfax County implements wage floor for public construction contracts

Published January 28, 2022 at 11:00AM

The Fairfax County Government Center (staff photo by Jay Westcott)

Fairfax County is working on ways to ensure that consistent and fair wages are linked to public construction contracts.

At a board meeting on Tuesday (Jan. 25), the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to require all public construction contracts to abide by the prevailing wage — the hourly rate paid to most workers in specific niche coasts or in a labor market area.

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Amid safety concerns, Fairfax County finds hundreds of aging high-rises

By David Taube

Published October 27, 2021 at 3:30PM

Safety crews investigate after the partial collapse of a Surfside, Fla. high rise (Photo via NIST)

Following the collapse of a 40-year-old high-rise in Surfside, Fla., officials in Fairfax County and across the country are looking to prevent a similar tragedy.

“Anything we can do to prevent such a [tragedy] from happening again, we want to do,” Board of Supervisors Chairman Jeff McKay said yesterday (Tuesday) during a Land Use Policy Committee meeting.