HUD Labor Standards Administration and Enforcement

This Guide has been developed as part of HUD’s communications strategy with you and its approximately 5,000 client agencies. It has been designed to help you develop organizational and administrative approaches which best work for you while still enabling you to meet your labor standards contractual responsibilities in the administration of HUD-assisted programs as efficiently as possible. It will also be useful to you as a training tool and ready reference for compliance staff. While this Guide is intended to address numerous situations, it was not written to cover every possible labor standards issue. If there is a labor standards issue not addressed in this Guide, please contact your local HUD Labor Relations Field Staff. Throughout this Guide, the acronym “LCA” or “LCAs” shall mean state, tribal and local agencies.

Whom to contact...

The HUD Labor Relations Field staff is your support team and is available to provide training and technical assistance in the administration of HUD programs subject to Federal labor standards provisions. Please call upon the HUD Labor Relations Field staff for your jurisdiction at any time. Also, please visit the Office of Labor Relations at: https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/davis_bacon_and_labor_standards.

At this site you will have ready access to publications, forms, the latest policy letters, and related links which will help you administer labor standards. Most of the publications and forms referenced in this Guide are available in the Labor Relations Library at our website (above).

You can also obtain additional copies of this Guide and other publications by telephone from HUD’s Customer Service Center at (800)767-7468.