Allegations from an electrical workers' union that a contractor that used its members to fulfill contracts with SEPTA and the Delaware River Port Authority wrongly classified the workers in violation of the False Claims Act has survived a motion to dismiss.
U.S. District Judge Lawrence F. Stengel of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ruled on several issues, including the sometimes murky intersection of the FCA and the Davis-Bacon Act, which requires that federal contracts for construction work on public infrastructure reflect the prevailing wage for various classes of workers.
