A contractor on a public works project willfully fails to produce certified payroll records after proper written request. The contractor may face:

Explicación

Labor Code §1776(h) gives the contractor 10 days after a written request and then forfeits $100 for each calendar day, or part of one, for each worker, until strict compliance; those penalties are withheld from progress payments at the Division's request. Withholding is limited to the penalty amount, so the whole progress payment is not lost. Nothing about a records failure extends the completion date. The CSLB is not the assessing body here, and it is not the only one that can act: on a DIR-monitored job §1771.4(a)(3)(B) adds its own $100-a-day penalty, capped at $5,000 for the project.