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Section 5.2 Benefits 5.2.1 Contractors shall pay contributions to the established employee benefit funds in the amounts designated in the appropriate Master Labor Agreement and make all employee— authorized deductions in the amounts designated in the appropriate Master Labor Agreement, however, such contributions shall not exceed the contribution amounts set forth in the applicable prevailing wage determination. This Agreement does not relieve Contractors directly signatory to one or more of the Master Labor Agreements from making all contributions set forth in those Master Labor Agreements without reference to the foregoing. 5.2.2 The Contractor adopts and agrees to be bound by the written terms of the applicable, legally established, trust agreement(s) specifying the detailed basis on which payments are to be made into, and benefits paid out of, such trust funds for its employees. The Contractor authorizes the Parties to such trust funds to appoint trustees and successor trustees to administer the trust funds and hereby ratifies and accepts the trustees so appointed as if made by the Contractor. 5.2.3 Each Contractor and subcontractor is required to certify to the CWA Administrator that it has paid all benefit contributions due and owing to the appropriate Trast(s) prior to the receipt of its final payment and/or retention. Further, upon timely notification by a Union to the CWA Administrator, the CWA Administrator shall work with any prime Contractor or subcontractor who is delinquent in payments to assure that proper benefit contributions are made, to the extent of requesting the City or the prime Contractor to withhold payments otherwise due such Contractor, until such contributions have been made or otherwise guaranteed. Section 5.3 Wage Premiums Wage premiums, including but not limited to pay based on height of work, hazard pay, scaffold pay and special skills shall not be applicable to work under this Agreement, except to the extent provided for in any applicable prevailing wage determination. ARTICLE 6 HOURS OF WORK, OVERTIME, SHIFTS AND HOLIDAYS Section 6.1 Hours of Work Eight (8) hours per day between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 5:30 p.m., plus one-half ('/Z) hour unpaid lunch approximately mid -way through the shift, shall constitute the standard work day. Forty (40) hours per week shall constitute a regular week's work. The work week will start on Sunday and conclude on Saturday. The foregoing provisions of this Article are applicable unless otherwise provided in the applicable prevailing wage determination, or unless changes are permitted by law and such are agreed upon by the Parties. Nothing herein shall be construed as guaranteeing any employee eight (8) hours per day or forty (40) hours per week, or a Monday through Friday standard work schedule. Section 6.2 Place of Work Employees shall be at their place of work (as designated by the Contractor), at the starting time and shall remain at their place of work, performing their assigned functions, until quitting time. The place of work is defined as the gang or tool box or equipment at the employee's assigned work location or the place where the foreman gives Final Draft Community Workforce Agreement 6.22.17 14 City of Santa Ana