If the Labor Commissioner issues a Civil Wage and Penalty Assessment for prevailing wage violations, the contractor generally may:

Giải thích

Labor Code §1742(a) gives a contractor served with a civil wage and penalty assessment 60 days to file a written request for review, which is heard inside the DIR before any court sees it. The CSLB has no jurisdiction over a prevailing wage assessment. Going straight to superior court fails because the administrative remedy must be exhausted first; §1742(c) provides for review of the hearing decision by writ. Paying under protest and suing the awarding body targets the wrong party, since the assessment is the Labor Commissioner's.