No volunteers for creek restoration By Jennifer Upshaw, Marin IJ
Recent interpretation of a state law requiring workers to be paid a living wage means no volunteers will work on a project to beautify a Terra Linda waterway.
State Department of Industrial Relations officials last year ordered a Redding-based environmental firm to pay fines after the group used student volunteers on a publicly funded restoration project following complaints from a labor union.
The investigation triggered a clause in the state labor code requiring workers on a public works projects to be paid the prevailing wage.