No, not for the first year. The successor contractor’s obligation is to ensure that all service employees are paid no less than the wages and fringe benefits to which the employees would have been entitled, including prospective increases, if employed under the predecessor’s collective bargaining agreement for the first year of the contract (i.e. irrespective of whether the successor’s employees were or were not employed by the predecessor contractor). The obligation of the successor contractor is limited to the wage and fringe benefit requirements of the predecessor’s collective bargaining agreement and does not extend to other items such as seniority, grievance procedures, work rules, overtime, etc.

October 2018

Tags: Collective Bargaining Agreements, Wage and Hour