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Article: Subcontractor employees can't sue prime contractor for wages.(legalcorner)
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- Reeves Journal
- Article date:
- February 1, 2007
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Under the ruling in Violante v. Community Southwest Development and Construction Co., the answer was no--an employee of a subcontractor who hasn't been paid prevailing wages can't sue the prime contractor to obtain the prevailing wages.
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In Violante, three plaintiffs (workers/employees of a subcontractor), sued the prime contractor, the developer, and a limited liability company, as well as various other parties for failure to pay prevailing wages. The project was a public works project and therefore, by statute, required the payment of prevailing wages to employees of the general contractor and all subcontractors on the project as ...