Service Contract Act; Labor Standards for Federal Service Contracts

This document adopts as a final rule a new methodology for establishing minimum health and welfare benefits requirements under the McNamara-O'Hara Service Contract Act (SCA). In this document, the Department of Labor (DOL or the Department) also issues a variance, pursuant to Section 4(b) of the Act, to reflect the Department's practice of issuing prevailing fringe benefit determinations on a nationwide basis, rather than separately for classes of employees and localities. This document also contains other minor, clarifying modifications that conform the regulations to a 1985 court decision, a 1983 treaty, a 1996 intergovernmental compact, and more recent amendments to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) minimum wage provisions.