40-U.S.C.-3144
§3144 – Authority to Pay Wages and List Contractors Violating Contracts
Pathway
Title 40 > Subtitle II > Part A > Chapter 31 > Subchapter IV > Section 3144
Details
- Reference: Section 3144
- Legend: §3144 – Authority to Pay Wages and List Contractors Violating Contracts
- USCode Year: 2013
Provision Content
(a) Payment of Wages.—
(1) In general.—The Secretary of Labor shall pay directly to laborers and mechanics from any accrued payments withheld under the terms of a contract any wages found to be due laborers and mechanics under this subchapter.
(2) Right of action.—If the accrued payments withheld under the terms of the contract are insufficient to reimburse all the laborers and mechanics who have not been paid the wages required under this subchapter, the laborers and mechanics have the same right to bring a civil action and intervene against the contractor and the contractors sureties as is conferred by law on persons furnishing labor or materials. In those proceedings it is not a defense that the laborers and mechanics accepted or agreed to accept less than the required rate of wages or voluntarily made refunds.
(b) List of Contractors Violating Contracts.—
(1) In general.—The Comptroller General shall distribute to all departments of the Federal Government a list of the names of persons whom the Comptroller General has found to have disregarded their obligations to employees and subcontractors.
(2) Restriction on awarding contracts.—No contract shall be awarded to persons appearing on the list or to any firm, corporation, partnership, or association in which the persons have an interest until three years have elapsed from the date of publication of the list.
(Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1152; Pub. L. 113–50, §2(a), Nov. 21, 2013, 127 Stat. 578.)
| Revised Section |
Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
|---|---|---|
| 3144(a)(1) | 40:276a–2(a) (1st sentence words before semicolon). | Mar. 3, 1931, ch. 411, §3, 46 Stat. 1494; Aug. 30, 1935, ch. 825, 49 Stat. 1012. |
| 3144(a)(2) | 40:276a–2(b). | |
| 3144(b) | 40:276a–2(a) (1st sentence words after semicolon, last sentence). |
In subsection (b), the words or firms are omitted as being included in persons.
Amendments
2013—Pub. L. 113–50, §2(a)(1), struck out of Comptroller General after Authority in section catchline.
Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 113–50, §2(a)(2), substituted Secretary of Labor for Comptroller General.
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