MetroNews reports, “For the first time since the West Virginia Jobs Act was passed by the Legislature in 2001 to encourage skilled residents to be hired for state-contracted jobs, the state Labor Department has written a violation.” [Link added.] The department fined International Rigging, the low bidder on a million-dollar painting project awarded by the state Parkways Authority, $34,000, according to the report. Greg Barr, general manager of the West Virginia Parkways Authority, tells MetroNews, “What happened in this instance is when [the Florida-based contractor] filed their certified payrolls, they didn’t have hardly any West Virginia workers on the job.”
