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~ <br />Page: 19 <br />Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards Act <br />Pursuant to Section 102 (Overtime): <br />(1) Overtime requirements - No contractor or subcontractor contracting for any part of the <br />contract work which may require or involve the employment of laborers or mechanics shall <br />require or permit any such laborer or mechanic in any workweek in which he or she is employed <br />on such work to work in excess of forty hours in such workweek unless such laborer or mechanic <br />receives compensation at a rate not less than one and one-half times the basic rate of pay for all <br />hours worked in excess of forty hours in such workweek. <br />(2) Violation; liability for unpaid wages; liquidated damages - In the event of any violation of <br />the clause set forth in paragraph (1) of this section the Contractor and any subcontractor <br />responsible therefor shall be .liable for the unpaid wages. In addition, such Contractor and <br />subcontractor shall be liable to the United States for liquidated damages. Such liquidated <br />damages shall be computed with respect to each individual laborer or mechanic, including <br />watchmen and guards, employed in violation of the clause set forth in paragraph (1) of this <br />section, in the sum of $10 for each calendar day on which such individual was required or <br />permitted to work in excess of the standard workweek of forty hours without payment of the <br />overtime wages required by the clause set forth in paragraph (1) of this section. <br />(3) Withholding for unpaid wages and liquidated damages - The Recipient shall upon its own <br />action or upon written request of an authorized representative of the Department of Labor <br />~ withhold or cause to be withheld, from any moneys payable on account of work performed by <br />the Contractor or subcontractor under any such contract or any other Federal contract with the <br />same prime contractor, or any other federally-assisted contract subject to the Contract Work <br />Hours and Safety Standards Act, which is held by the same prime contractor, such sums as may <br />be determined to be necessary to satisfy any liabilities of such contractor or subcontractor for <br />unpaid wages and liquidated damages as provided in the clause set forth in paragraph (2) of this <br />section. <br />(4) Subcontracts - The Contractor or subcontractor shall insert in any subcontracts the clauses <br />set forth in this section and also a clause requiring the subcontractors to include these clauses in <br />any lower tier subcontracts. The prime contractor shall be responsible for compliance by any <br />subcontractor or lower tier subcontractor with the clauses set forth in this section. <br />(Section 102 nonconstruction contracts should also have the following provision:) <br />(5) Payrolls and basic records -(i) Payrolls and basic records relating thereto shall be <br />maintained by the Contractor during the course of the work and preserved for a period of three <br />years thereafter for all laborers and mechanics working at the site of the work (or under the <br />United States Housing Act of 1937, or under the Housing Act of 1949, in the construction or <br />development of the project). Such records shall contain the name, address, and social security <br />number of each such worker, his or her correct classification, hourly rates of wages paid <br />(including rates of contributions or costs anticipated for bona fide fringe benefits or cash <br />equivalents thereof of the types described in section 1(b)(2)(B) of the Davis-Bacon Act), daily <br />and weekly number of hours worked, deductions made and actual wages paid. Whenever the <br />Secretary of Labor has found under 29 CFR 5.5(a)(1)(iv) that the wages of any laborer or <br />mechanic include the amount of any costs reasonably anticipated in providing benefits under a <br />