MASSACHUSETTS
7)
Enforcement: what are the penalties for violations? Criminal
or fines?
When an investigation by the attorney general's
office reveals that a contractor or subcontractor has violated
this section by failing to pay said rate or rates of wages,
including payments to health and welfare funds and pension funds,
or the equivalent payment in wages, on said works to any person
performing work within classifications as determined by the
commissioner, or that a contractor or subcontractor has, for
himself, or as representative, agent or officer of another,
taken or received for his own use or the use of any other person,
as a rebate, refund or gratuity, or in any other guise, any
portion of the wages, including payments to health and welfare
funds and pension funds, or the equivalent payment in wages,
paid to any such person for work done or service rendered on
said public works, the attorney general may, upon written notice
to the contractor or subcontractor and the sureties of the contractor
or subcontractor, and after a hearing thereon, order work halted
on the part of the contract on which such wage violations occurred,
until the defaulting contractor or subcontractor has filed with
the attorney general's office a bond in the amount of such penal
sum as the attorney general shall determine, conditioned upon
payment of said rate or rates of wages, including payments to
health and welfare funds and pension funds, or the equivalent
payment in wages, on said works to any person performing work
within classifications as determined by the commissioner.
*This information is taken from the Massachusetts
General Laws, Chapter 149, Section 27.
