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to the affected employees in the amount of their unpaid overtime wages and an <br />additional amount equal to twice the unpaid overtime wages as liquidated damages. <br />8.9. This section does not apply to financial institutions as defined in ORS 706.008. <br />9. ORS 279C.800 -870 Prevailing Rate of Wage. <br />9.1. The specifications for the contract contain a provision stating the existing <br />prevailing rate of wage that may be paid to workers in each trade or occupation required <br />for the public works employed in the performance of the contract either by the Contractor <br />or subcontractor or other person doing or contracting to do the whole or any part of the <br />work contemplated by the contract. Workers shall be paid not less than the specified <br />minimum hourly rate of wage. <br />9.2. For Public Works projects subject to ORS 279C.800 to 279C.870 and the Davis - <br />Bacon Act (40 U.S.C. 276a): (1) If the state prevailing rate of wage is higher than the <br />federal prevailing rate of wage, the contractor and every subcontractor on the project <br />shall pay at least the state prevailing rate of wage as required by ORS 279C.800 to <br />279C.870; and (2) If the federal prevailing rate of wage is higher than the state prevailing <br />rate of wage, the contractor and every subcontractor on the project shall pay at least the <br />federal prevailing rate of wage as required by the Davis -Bacon Act. <br />9.3. The City shall retain 25 percent of any amount earned by the contractor on the <br />Public Works project until the contractor has filed certified statements of wage rates and <br />payment on a form prescribed by the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and <br />Industries. The City shall pay the contractor the amount retained within 14 days after <br />contractor files the certified statements. The contractor shall retain 25 percent of any <br />amount earned by a first -tier subcontractor on a Public Works project until the first -tier <br />subcontractor has filed the certified statements. The contractor shall verify the first -tier <br />subcontractor has filed the certified statements before the contractor pays the <br />subcontractor the amount retained, which shall be within 14 days after the first -tier <br />subcontractor files the certified statements. <br />10. ORS 279A.110. Discrimination in subcontracting prohibited; remedies. <br />10.1. The Contractor may not discriminate against a subcontractor in the awarding of a <br />subcontract because the subcontractor is a minority, women or emerging small business <br />enterprise certified under ORS 200.055. <br />10.2. By entering into the contract, the Contractor certifies that it has not discriminated <br />and will not discriminate, in violation of subsection 7.1, against any minority, women or <br />emerging small business enterprise in obtaining any required subcontract. <br />11.ORS 2798.240 Exclusion of recycled oils prohibited. Lubricating oil and industrial oil <br />may include recycled oils or oils that are not manufactured from virgin materials. <br />