Administration and Enforcement Procedures - Fair Wages and Hours of Labour Act and Regulations

OPD 870
Effective May 2005

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**Date**

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Assignment No.:  **Auto fill**

**Name and address of the contracting authority**

Dear ****Mr./Mrs./Ms.**** **name of the contracting authority**:

Subject:

**Contract #, Contract title, Name of Contractor, Work site address or location**

Subsequent to an ****inspection OR investigation**** under the Fair Wages and Hours of Labour Act and Regulations, **name of non-compliant employer**, an employer at the site at **location of the site**, was found to have not paid wages in accordance with the "Labour Conditions" and wage Schedule of the above noted contract. ****In addition to notification to the subcontractor which was not productive, the OR The**** primary contractor was notified of the amounts owing and was asked to pay the ****worker OR workers**** directly by **date given for voluntary compliance**. All possible opportunity has been given to ****the contractor OR the subcontractor and the primary contractor**** to voluntarily comply with the "Labour Conditions" in the contract. However, at this time, the affected ****worker has OR workers have**** not been paid the ****amount OR amounts**** owing ***(when contract is still active) and ****the pay rate has OR their pay rates have**** not been adjusted to ensure ongoing payment at the Schedule rates*** according to the wage Schedule.

Therefore, on behalf of the Minister of Labour and in accordance with section **regulation section** of the Regulations, I am requesting that $**amount** be withheld from the monies still owed to **name of main contractor** on Contract # **contract number and title**, until you receive recommendations concerning the disbursement of those funds from me.

I have sent a copy of this letter to **name of main contractor** ***(if a subcontractor is the affected employer) and **name of affected subcontractor**, *** and enclosed with this request a copy of our most recent correspondence to the contractor.

To confirm this holdback, or for more information, please contact **name of inspector**, an inspector at the **name of district office responsible for the investigation** at **telephone and/or fax number of the investigating officer**.

Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.

Yours sincerely,

 

**Name and proper title of the Labour Regional Head, or designate**

c.c.	**Main contractor** ***and subcontractor (if applicable)***

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