Explanations

CUMBERLAND COUNTY

The following list is considered as those days for which holiday rates
of wages for work performed apply: New Years Day, Memorial Day,
Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and
Veterans Day in some classifications/counties.  Generally, any of
these holidays which fall on a Sunday is celebrated on the following
Monday.  This then makes work performed on that Monday payable at the
appropriate overtime rate for holiday pay. Common practice in a given
local may alter certain days of celebration.  If in doubt, please
check with IDOL.

Oil and chip resealing (O&C) means the application of road oils and
liquid asphalt to coat an existing road surface, followed by
application of aggregate chips or gravel to coated surface, and
subsequent rolling of material to seal the surface.

EXPLANATION OF CLASSES

ASBESTOS - GENERAL - removal of asbestos material/mold and hazardous
materials from any place in a building, including mechanical systems
where those mechanical systems are to be removed.  This includes the
removal of asbestos materials/mold and hazardous materials from
ductwork or pipes in a building when the building is to be demolished
at the time or at some close future date.

ASBESTOS - MECHANICAL - removal of asbestos material from mechanical
systems, such as pipes, ducts, and boilers, where the mechanical
systems are to  remain.

CERAMIC TILE FINISHER, MARBLE FINISHER, TERRAZZO FINISHER

Assisting, helping or supporting the tile, marble and terrazzo
mechanic by performing their historic and traditional work assignments
required to complete the proper installation of the work covered by
said crafts.  The term "Ceramic" is used for naming the classification
only and is in no way a limitation of the product handled.  Ceramic
takes into consideration most hard tiles.

ELECTRIC POWER LINEMAN

Construction, maintenance and dismantling of overhead and underground
electric power lines, including high voltage pipe type cable work, and
associated structures and equipment.

ELECTRIC POWER EQUIPMENT OPERATOR - CLASS 1

Operation of all crawler type equipment D-4 and larger from the ground
to assist the Electric Power Linemen in performing their duties.

ELECTRIC POWER EQUIPMENT OPERATORS - CLASS 2

Operation of all other equipment from the ground to assist the
Electric Power Linemen in performing their duties.

ELECTRIC POWER GROUNDMAN

Applies to workers who assist the Electric Power Lineman from the
ground.

ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS TECHNICIAN

Installation, service and maintenance of low-voltage systems which
utilizes the transmission and/or transference of voice, sound, vision,
or digital for commercial, education, security and entertainment
purposes for the following:  TV monitoring and surveillance,
background/foreground music, intercom and telephone interconnect,
field programming, inventory control systems, microwave transmission,
multi-media, multiplex, radio page, school, intercom and sound burglar
alarms and low voltage master clock systems.

Excluded from this classification are energy management systems, life
safety systems, supervisory controls and data acquisition systems not
intrinsic with the above listed systems, fire alarm systems, nurse
call systems and raceways exceeding fifteen feet in length.

SURVEY WORKER - Operated survey equipment including data collectors,
G.P.S. and robotic instruments, as well as conventional levels and
transits.

TRUCK DRIVER - BUILDING, HEAVY AND HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION
Class 1.  Drivers on 2 axle trucks hauling less than 9 ton.  Air
compressor and welding machines and brooms, including those pulled by
separate units, truck driver  helpers, warehouse employees, mechanic
helpers, greasers and tiremen, pickup trucks when hauling materials,
tools, or workers to and from and on-the-job  site, and fork lifts up
to 6,000 lb. capacity.

Class 2.  Two or three axle trucks hauling more than 9 ton but hauling
less than 16 ton.  A-frame winch trucks, hydrolift trucks, vactor
trucks or similar  equipment when used for transportation purposes.
Fork lifts over 6,000 lb. capacity, winch trucks, four axle
combination units, and ticket writers.

Class 3.  Two, three or four axle trucks hauling 16 ton or more.
Drivers on water pulls, articulated dump trucks, mechanics and working
forepersons, and  dispatchers.  Five axle or more combination units.

Class 4.  Low Boy and Oil Distributors.

Class 5.  Drivers who require special protective clothing while
employed on hazardous waste work.

TRUCK DRIVER - OIL AND CHIP RESEALING ONLY.

This shall encompass laborers, workers and mechanics who drive
contractor or subcontractor owned, leased, or hired pickup, dump,
service, or oil distributor trucks.  The work includes transporting
materials and equipment (including but not limited to, oils, aggregate
supplies, parts, machinery and tools) to or from the job site;
distributing oil or liquid asphalt and aggregate; stock piling
material when in connection with the actual oil and chip contract.
The Truck Driver (Oil & Chip Resealing) wage classification does not
include supplier delivered materials.

OPERATING ENGINEERS - BUILDING, HEAVY AND HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION
Class 1. Draglines, Derricks, Shovels, Gradalls, Mechanics, Tractor
Highlift, Tournadozer, Concrete Mixers with Skip, Tournamixer, Two
Drum Machine, One Drum Hoist with Tower or Boom, Cableways, Tower
Machines, Motor Patrol, Boom Tractor, Boom or Winch Truck, Winch or
Hydraulic Boom Truck, Tournapull, Tractor Operating Scoops, Bulldozer,
Push Tractor, Asphalt Planer, Finishing Machine on Asphalt, Large
Rollers on Earth, Rollers on Asphalt Mix, Ross Carrier or similar
Machine, Gravel Processing Machine, Asphalt Plant Engineer, Paver
Operator, Dredging Equipment, or Dredge Engineer, or Dredge Operator,
Central Mix Plant Engineer, CMI or similar type machine, Concrete
Pump, Truck or Skid Mounted, Engineer or Rock Crusher Plant, Concrete
Plant Engineer, Ditching Machine with dual attachment, Tractor Mounted
Loaders, Hydro Crane, Standard or Dinkey Locomotives, Scoopmobiles,
Euclid Loader, Soil Cement Machine, Back Filler, Elevating Machine,
Power Blade, Drilling Machine, including Well Testing, Caissons, Shaft
or any similar type drilling machines, Motor Driven Paint Machine,
Pipe Cleaning Machine, Pipe Wrapping Machine, Pipe Bending Machine,
Apsco Paver, Boring Machine, (Head Equipment Greaser), Barber-Greene
Loaders, Formless Paver, (Well Point System), Concrete Spreader, Hydra
Ax, Span Saw, Marine Scoops, Brush Mulcher, Brush Burner, Mesh
Placer, Tree Mover, Helicopter Crew (3), Piledriver-Skid or Crawler,
Stump Remover, Root Rake, Tug Boat Operator, Refrigerating Machine,
Freezing Operator, Chair Cart- Self-Propelled, Hydra Seeder, Straw
Blower, Power Sub Grader, Bull Float, Finishing Machine,
Self-Propelled Pavement Breaker, Lull (or similar type Machine), Two
Air Compressors, Compressors hooked in Manifold, Chip Spreader, Mud
Cat, Sull-Air, Fork Lifts (except when used for landscaping work),
Soil Stabilizer (Seaman Tiller, Bo Mag, Rago Gator, and similar types
of equipment), Tube Float, Spray Machine, Curing Machine, Concrete or
Asphalt Milling Machine, Snooper Truck-Operator, Backhoe, Farm
Tractors (with attachments), 4 Point Lift System (Power Lift or
similar type), Skid-Steer (Bob Cat or similar type), Wrecking Shears,
Water Blaster.

Class 2. Concrete Mixers without Skips, Rock Crusher, Ditching Machine
under 6', Curbing Machine, One Drum Machines without Tower or Boom,
Air Tugger, Self-Propelled Concrete Saw, Machine Mounted Post Hole
Digger, two to four Generators, Water Pumps or Welding Machines,
within 400 feet, Air Compressor 600 cu. ft. and under, Rollers on
Aggregate and Seal Coat Surfaces, Fork Lift (when used for landscaping
work), Concrete and Blacktop Curb Machine, One Water Pump, Oilers,
Air Valves or Steam Valves, One Welding Machine, Truck Jack, Mud Jack,
Gunnite Machine, House Elevators when used for hoisting material,
Engine Tenders, Fireman, Wagon Drill, Flex Plane, Conveyor, Siphons
and Pulsometer, Switchman, Fireman on Paint Pots, Fireman on Asphalt
Plants, Distributor Operator on Trucks, Tampers, Self-Propelled Power
Broom, Striping Machine (motor driven), Form Tamper, Bulk Cement
Plant, Equipment Greaser, Deck Hands, Truck Crane Oiler-Driver, Cement
Blimps, Form Grader, Temporary Heat, Throttle Valve, Super Sucker
(and similar type of equipment).

Class 3. Power Cranes, Truck or Crawler Crane, Rough Terrain Crane
(Cherry Picker), Tower Crane, Overhead Crane.

Other Classifications of Work:

For definitions of classifications not otherwise set out, the
Department generally has on file such definitions which are available.
If a task to be performed is not subject to one of the
classifications of pay set out, the Department will  upon being
contacted state which neighboring county has such a classification and
provide such rate, such rate being deemed to exist by reference in
this  document.  If no neighboring county rate applies to the task,
the Department shall undertake a special determination, such special
determination  being then deemed to have existed under this
determination.  If a project requires these, or any classification not
listed, please contact IDOL at 217-782-1710 for  wage rates or
clarifications.

LANDSCAPING

Landscaping work falls under the existing classifications for laborer,
operating engineer and truck driver.  The work performed by landscape
plantsman and  landscape laborer is covered by the existing
classification of laborer.  The work performed by landscape operators
(regardless of equipment used or its size) is  covered by the
classifications of operating engineer.  The work performed by
landscape truck drivers (regardless of size of truck driven) is
covered by the  classifications of truck driver.