The state is embarking on a six year and $45 billion capital and the state’s Comptroller signed an executive order that will refocus an effort to enforce the state’s prevailing wage laws. Susana Mendoza says this is necessary to make sure workers are being paid what they are owed.

Mendoza says this essentially allows for state law to be enforced and if her office found that a contractor wasn’t paying the right wage then she could stop payment to them to fix the problem.