Labor-related liabilities: original contractor.

Under existing law, an action may be brought for nonpayment of wages, fringe benefits, or health and welfare or pension fund contributions. This bill would require a direct contractor, as defined, making or taking a contract in the state for the erection, construction, alteration, or repair of a building, structure, or other work, to assume, and be liable for, any debt owed to a wage claimant for labor incurred by a subcontractor or contractor acting under, by, or for the direct contractor in performing labor, construction, or other work included in the subject of the original contract. The bill would authorize civil actions to enforce this liability, as provided.