Section 14920 Of Chapter 8. Traffic From California Government Code >> Division 3. >> Title 2. >> Part 5.5. >> Chapter 8.
14920
. (a) The Department of General Services provides for the
specialized consideration of all traffic problems of the state;
develops specialized knowledge of rates, tariffs, and traffic
problems to the end that all state shipments be accomplished in the
most expeditious, economical, and efficient manner possible via
carrier or carriers whose drivers and supporting personnel are
operating under current collective-bargaining agreements or who are
maintaining the prevailing wages, standards and conditions of
employment for its driver and supporting personnel employees; insures
adequate state representation before administrative rate-setting
bodies; disseminates traffic information throughout all state
agencies.
(b) In establishing procedures for obtaining commercial moving
services under competitive bid contracts the department shall act in
accordance with the following:
Every contract (and any bid specification therefor) hereby
authorized and entered into by the state in excess of two thousand
five hundred dollars ($2,500), the principal purpose of which is to
furnish commercial moving services to relocate state offices,
facilities and institutions, shall specify that no contractor
performing thereunder shall pay any employee actually engaged in the
moving or handling of goods being relocated under such contract less
than the prevailing wage rate, except consideration may be given to
bids not conforming with these employee cost provisions in areas
where no such employee wage standards and conditions are reasonably
available. The term "prevailing wage rate," as used in this
subdivision, means the rate paid to a majority of workmen engaged in
the particular craft, classification or type of work within the
locality if a majority of such workmen be paid at a single rate; if
there be no single rate being paid to a majority, then the rate being
paid the greater number. The determination required by this
subdivision of wage rates prevailing in a given area shall be made by
the Department of Industrial Relations.
(c) The term "supporting personnel" for the purposes of this
chapter shall include all employees of a carrier who directly
participate in the actual moving and handling of goods.
The amendments to this section during the 1975-76 Regular Session,
shall not apply to any contract, including those that may be renewed
periodically, which affects the wage rates of supporting personnel
until the end of the renewal period or the end of the contract,
whichever first occurs.