Common use of Piecework Clause in Contracts

Piecework. A. The parties recognize that the piecework method of payment of wages frequently makes it impossible to calculate the hours worked by the employee; that the effect is to render it difficult, if not impossible, to enforce this contract so as to insure that employees working there under are receiving the proper negotiated rate and/or that the contractually required contributions are being made as to all hours required to be paid for. Such methods frequently result in the payment of wages to employees below the negotiated levels and the withholding from the Trust Funds and their participants of substantial amounts of contributions, all to the jeopardy of the fiscal integrity of the Trust Funds and the employee benefit programs they support.