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PUBLIC LAW 89-286-OCT. 22, 1965

[79 STAT.

Public Law 89-286 October 22, 1965 [ H. R. 10238]

Service Contract Act of 1965. Required contract provisions.

Minimum wage$.

Fringe b e n e f i t s.

Safe working conditions.

Notice of comp e n s a t i o n to employees.

Wage specifications.

75 Stat. 67.

AN ACT To provide labor standards for certain persons euiployetl by Federal contractors to furnish services to Federal agencies, and foi- other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Service Contract Act of 1965". SEC. 2. (a) Every contract (and any bid specification therefor) entered into by the United States or the District of Columbia in excess of $2,500, except as provided in section 7 of this Act, whether negotiated or advertised, the principal purpose of which is to furnish services in the United States through the use of service employees, as defined herein, shall contain the following: (1) A provision specifying the minimum monetary wages to be paid the various classes of service employees in the performance of the contract or any subcontract thereunder, as determined by the Secretary, or his authorized representative, in accordance with prevailing rates for such employees in the locality, which in no case shall be lower than the minimum specified in subsection (b). (2) A provision specifying the fringe benefits to be furnished the various classes of service employees, engaged in the performance of the contract or any subcontract thereunder, as determined by the Secretary or his authorized representative to be prevailing for such employees in the locality. Such fringe benefits shall include medical or hospital care, pensions on retirement or death, compensation for injuries or illness resulting from occupational activity, or insurance to provide any of the foregoing, miemployment benefits, life insurance, disability and sickness insurance, accident insurance, vacation aud holiday pay, costs of apprenticeship or other similar programs and other bona fide fringe benefits not otherwise required by Federal, State, or local law to be provided by the contractor or subcontractor. The obligation mider this subparagraph may be discharged by fuiiiishing any equivalent combinations of fringe benefits or by making ecjuivalent pi" differential payments in cash under rules and regulations established by the Secretary. (3) A provision that no part of the services covered by this Act will be performed in buildings or surroundings or under working conditions, provided by or under the control or supervision of the contractor or any subcontractor, which are unsanitary or hazardous or dangerous to the health or safety of service employees engaged to furnish the services. (4) A provision that on the date a service employee commences work on a contract to which this Act applies, the contractor or subcontractor will deliver to the employee a notice of the compensation required under paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection, on a form prepared by the Federal agency, or will post a notice of the required compensation in a prominent place at the worksite. (b)(1) Xo contractor who enters into any contract with the Federal Government the principal purpose of which is to furnish services through the use of service employees as defined herein and no subcontractor thereunder shall pay any of his employees engaged in I)erforming work on such contracts less than the minimum wage specified under section 6(a)(1) of the F a i r Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended (52 Stat. 1060; 29 U.S.C. 201, et seq.). (2) The provisions of sections 3,4, and 5 of this Act shall be applicable to violations of this subsection.

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