266-26 Agreement with LensLock.pdf

The Contractor shall be and remain an independent contractor with respect to all services performed hereunder and agrees to and does hereby accept full and exclusive liability for the payment of any and all contributions or taxes for social security, unemployment insurance or old age retirement benefits, pensions or annuities now or hereafter imposed under any state or federal law which are measured by the wages, salaries or other remuneration paid to persons employed by the Contractor for work performed under the terms of this contract and further agrees to obey all lawful rules and regulations and to meet all lawful requirements by all duly authorized state or federal officials, and said Contractor agrees to indemnify and save harmless the Township from any such contributions or taxes or liability therefore. 27. EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY The Contractor acknowledges that he/she shall comply with the requirement of N.J.S.A. 10:5-31, et seq. and N.J.A.C. 17:27 and submit to the State of New Jersey and/or the Township such documentation as shall be required by law as more specifically set forth in Exhibit B entitled “Mandatory Equal Employment Opportunity Language.” 28. PREVAILING WAGES N.J.S.A. 34:11-56.27 requires that any contract for public work expressly stipulate that workers performing work under the contract shall not be paid less than the required prevailing wage rate. Contractors and their sureties shall be liable to the public body, any lessee to whom the public body is leasing a property or premises or to any lessor from whom the public body is leasing or will be leasing a property or premises, for any excess costs occasioned by the termination of their right to proceed with the work, or such part of the work as to which there has been a failure to pay required wages. If applicable, the Contractor will be required to comply with the provisions of the NJ Prevailing Wage Act, Chapter 150 of the Laws of 1963, setting forth requirements for the payment of prevailing wages and for the proper documentation of such payments where the project construction, reconstruction, demolition, alteration or repair work, or maintenance work, including painting and decorating, done under contract and paid for in whole or in part out of funds of the Township of West Orange, except work performed under a rehabilitation program.