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EROIGSA -15 -0007 <br />ATTACHMENT 2 - Title 29, Part 4 Labor Standards for Federal Service Contracts <br />determinations to be issued by the wage and Hour Division, Employment Stauclards <br />Administration of the Department of Labor as provided in such Act, <br />(e) The contractor or subcontractor may discharge the obligation to furnish fringe benefits <br />specified in the attachment or determined conformably thereto by furnishing any equivalent <br />combinations of bona lids fringe benefits, or by making equivalent or differential payments in <br />cash in accordance with the applicable rules set forth in subpart D of 29 CFR part 4, and not <br />otherwise. <br />(d)(1) In the absence of a minimum wage attachment for this contract, neither the contractor nor <br />any subcontractor under this Contract/IGSA shall pay any person performing work under the <br />Coatract/IGSA (regardless of whether they are service employees) less than the minimum wage <br />specified by section 6(a)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, Nothing in this provision <br />shall relieve the contractor ar any subcontractor of any other obligation under [[Page 42]] law or <br />Contract/IGSA for the payment of a higher wage to any employee, <br />(2) If this Contract/IGSA succeeds a contract, subject to the Service Contract Act of 1965 as <br />amended, Corder which substantially the same services were furnished in the same locality and <br />service employees wexe paid wages and fringe benefits provided for in a collective bargaining <br />agreement, in the absence of the minimum wage attachment for this <br />Contract /IGSA setting forth such collectively bargained wage rates and fringe benefits, neither <br />the contractor nor any subcontractor under this ContracUIGSA shall pay any service employee <br />Performing any of the Contract/10SA work (regardless of whether or not such employee was <br />employed under the predecessor contract), less than the wages and fringe benefits provided for in <br />such collective bargaining agrcoments, to which such employee would have been entitled, if <br />employed Linder the predecessor contract, including accrued wages and fringe benefits and any <br />prospective increases in wages and fringe benefits provided for under such agreement, No <br />contractor or subcontractor under this Coatract/IGSA may be relieved of the foregoing obligation <br />unless the limitations of Sec. 4.1b(b) of 29 CFR part 4 apply or unless the Secretary of Labor or <br />his authorized representative finds, after a hearing as provided in Sec• 4.10 of 29 CPR part 4 that <br />the wages and /or fiingo benefits provided for in such agreement axe substantially at variance with <br />those which prevail for services of a character similar in the locality, or determines, as provided <br />in Sec. 4,11 of 29 CFR part 4, that the collective bargaining agreement applicable to service <br />employees employed under the predecessor Contract /IGSA was not entered into as a result of <br />arm's - length negotiations. Where it is found in accordance with the review procedures provided <br />in 29 CPR 4.10 and /or 4,11 and parts 6 and 8 that some or all of the wages and/or fringe benefits <br />contained in a predecessor contractor's ccllective bargaining agreement are substantially at <br />variance with those which prevail for services of a character similar in the locality, and /or that <br />the collective bargaining agreement applicable to service employees employed under the <br />predecessor Contract/IGSA was not entered into as a result of arm's - length negotiations, the <br />Department will issue a new or revised wage determination setting forth the applicable wage <br />rates and fringe benefits. Such determination shall be made part of the Contract /IGSA or <br />subcontract, in accordance with the decision of the Administrator, the Administrative Law Judge, <br />or the Administrative Review Board, as the case may be, irrespective of whether such issuance <br />occurs prior to or after the award of a Contract /IGSA or subcontract. 53 Comp. Gen, 401 (1973). <br />In the case of a wage determination issued solely as a result of a finding of substantial variance, <br />such determination shall be effective as of the date of the final administrative decision. <br />Page 3 of 8 <br />25G -54 <br />