The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the
following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Act" means the State Building Service Contracts Act,
P.L. 2005, c.
379, 34:11-56.5 8 et seq., and the rules promulgated in accordance
therewith, this chapter.
"Building" includes everything within the outer walls of the building
structure, as well as the exterior of those walls, and any front, rear or side portico attached to the
building itself.
"Building services" means any cleaning or building maintenance work,
including, but not limited to, sweeping, vacuuming, floor cleaning, cleaning of rest rooms, collecting refuse
or trash, window cleaning, engineering, securing, patrolling, or other work in connection with the care,
securing or maintenance of an existing building. "Building services" shall not include any maintenance work
or other public work for which a contractor is required under the New Jersey Prevailing Wage Act,
34:11-56.2 5 et seq., to pay the "prevailing wage," as that term
is defined in 34:11-56.2 6.
"Building services worker" or "worker" means any individual employed or
engaged by a contractor to perform building services, pursuant to a State contract, for any property or
premises owned or leased by the State.
1. "Building services worker" or "worker" shall include full-time
workers, part-time workers, temporary workers and independent contractors.
2. "Building services worker" or "worker" shall not include any employee,
including a learner, apprentice, or student, whose earning capacity is impaired by age or physical or
developmental disability or injury, to whom the Commissioner has issued a special license authorizing
employment at wages less than the prevailing wage for building services for a period of time as shall be
fixed by the Commissioner or the Director of Wage and Hour Compliance and stated in the license.
"Certified payroll record" means a payroll record that is attested to by
the contractor or the owner of the company doing business as the contractor, or a corporate officer of such
company, or an authorized agent of the contractor.
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development
or his or her duly authorized designee.
"Contract" means those agreements entered into by the State for the
principal purpose of furnishing building services. Where building space is leased by the State and the
building owner furnishes general janitorial or other building services, the Act does not apply.
"Contracting State agency" means the particular State department, bureau,
board, commission, agency or instrumentality, including a State institution of higher education, which enters
into a contract with a contractor for the furnishing of building services for any property or premises owned
or leased by the State.
"Contractor" means a person, partnership, association, joint stock
company, trust, corporation, or other legal business entity or successor thereof, that enters into a contract
for the furnishing of building services for any property or premises owned or leased by the State and
includes any subcontractor or lower-tier subcontractor of a contractor, as defined in this section.
"Department" means the Department of Labor and Workforce
Development.
"Engineering" means the functions ordinarily performed by a "janitor" as
that term is defined within the United States Department of Labor's Service Contract Act Directory of
Occupations, namely, one who cleans and keeps in an orderly condition factory working areas and washrooms, or
premises of an office, apartment house, or commercial or other establishment. Duties involve a combination of
the following: sweeping, mopping or scrubbing, and polishing floors; removing chips, trash, and other refuse;
dusting equipment, furniture, or fixtures; polishing metal fixtures or trimmings; providing supplies and
minor maintenance services; and cleaning lavatories, showers, and restrooms. Excluded from the definition of
the term "engineering" are workers who specialize in window washing, housekeeping staff who make beds and
change linens as a primary responsibility, workers required to disassemble and assemble equipment in order to
clean machinery, and workers who receive additional compensation to maintain sterile facilities or equipment.
Also excluded from the definition of the term "engineering" are workers who maintain building infrastructure
equipment and machinery, such as, but not limited to, heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC),
elevators, boilers, plumbing and electrical systems.
"Extended" means prolonging the duration of an existing contract as
provided for and in accordance with the terms of that contract.
"Fringe benefit" means "fringe benefit" as that term is defined and used
within the Federal Service Contract Act of 1965, 41 U.S.C. §§ 351 et seq., incorporated herein by
reference, as amended and supplemented, and the regulations promulgated by the Secretary of Labor in
accordance therewith, 29 CFR Part 4, incorporated herein by reference, as amended and supplemented.
"Leased by the State" means that not less than 55 percent of the property
or premises is leased by the State, provided that the portion of the property or premises that is leased by
the State measures more than 20,000 square feet.
"Monetary wage" means "monetary wage" as that term is defined and used
within the Federal Service Contract Act of 1965, 41 U.S.C. §§ 351 et seq., incorporated herein by
reference, as amended and supplemented, and the regulations promulgated by the Secretary of Labor in
accordance therewith, 29 CFR Part 4, incorporated herein by reference, as amended and supplemented.
"Renewed" means a new contract entered into by the parties upon
expiration or termination of an existing contract.
"Payroll record" means a form satisfactory to the Commissioner, wherein
is shown worker information, such as name, address, social security number, and job classification, together
with actual hourly rate of pay, actual daily, overtime and weekly hours worked in each job classification,
gross pay, itemized deductions, and net pay paid to the worker; such record shall also include:
1. Any fringe benefits paid to approved plans, funds or programs on
behalf of the worker; and
2. Fringe benefits paid in cash to the worker.
"Prevailing wage for building services" means the monetary wage and
fringe benefit rates designated by the Commissioner based on the determinations made by the United States
General Services Administration pursuant to the Federal Service Contract Act of 1965, 41 U.S.C. §§
351 et seq., for the appropriate localities and classifications of building services workers.
"State" means the State of New Jersey and all of its departments,
bureaus, boards, commissions, agencies and instrumentalities, including any State institutions of higher
education, but does not include political subdivisions of the State.
"State institutions of higher education" means Rutgers, the State
University of New Jersey, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and the New Jersey Institute
of Technology, and any of the State colleges or universities established pursuant to Chapter 64 of Title 18A
of the New Jersey Statutes, but does not include any county college established pursuant to Chapter 64A of
Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.
"Subcontractor" means any subcontractor or lower-tier subcontractor of a
contractor.
