Failure to Maintain Records. It is the Employer’s obligation to maintain adequate, reliable, and contemporaneous records sufficient to determine the benefits due or which may become due to its employees, which shall include, but not be limited to, the records referenced in Section 12 of this Article. In the event that an Employer fails to maintain adequate, reliable, and contemporaneous records establishing the amount of hours worked by employees who are paid on an hourly basis, then the Employer hereby agrees that all hours worked which the employee received pay or was entitled to receive pay from the employer, including but not limited to sick time, vacation, personal leave, leave of absence or any other compensatory time, shall be considered hours worked for which contributions are due to the Fund. At the Fund’s discretion, the Fund may calculate the hours worked by an hourly employee by dividing the total pay received by the employee during the applicable audit period by the journeyman wage rate set forth in the applicable collective bargaining agreement. The Fund’s calculation of amounts due under the above-described methodology shall be deemed conclusive and binding on the Employer. Notwithstanding the foregoing, an Employer shall not be required to maintain records of actual hours worked by its employees who are paid a salary and are exempt from overtime under applicable federal and state laws; provided that, each such salaried exempt employee shall be deemed to work forty
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Sources: Trust Agreement
Failure to Maintain Records. It is the Employer’s obligation to maintain adequate, reliable, and contemporaneous records sufficient to determine the benefits due or which may become due to its employees, which shall include, but not be limited to, the records referenced in Section 12 4.9 of this ArticleArticle IV. In the event that an Employer fails to maintain adequate, reliable, and contemporaneous records establishing the amount of hours worked by employees who are paid on an hourly basis, then the Employer hereby agrees that all hours worked which the employee received pay or was entitled to receive pay from the employer, including but not limited to sick time, vacation, personal leave, leave of absence or any other compensatory time, shall be considered hours worked for which contributions are due to the Fund. At the Fund’s discretion, the Fund may calculate the hours worked by an hourly employee by dividing the total pay received by the employee during the applicable audit period by the journeyman wage rate set forth in the applicable collective bargaining agreement. The Fund’s calculation of amounts due under the above-described methodology shall be deemed conclusive and binding on the Employer. Notwithstanding the foregoing, an Employer shall not be required to maintain records of actual hours worked by its employees who are paid a salary and are exempt from overtime under applicable federal and state laws; provided that, each such salaried exempt employee shall be deemed to work fortyforty (40) hours per week and the Employer shall be obligated to pay the hourly contribution rate required by the Fund at the rate of forty (40) hours per week (or, if less, the amount specified in the written agreement between the Employer and the Fund).
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Sources: Trust Agreement