§640. Fringe benefits payable under collective bargaining agreements
Any and all amounts payable by employers under collective bargaining
agreements with any labor organization for vacation, health and welfare,
pension, apprenticeship and training, supplemental unemployment benefits, or
any other fringe benefits considered as wages by the secretary in determining
prevailing wage rates shall be considered and treated as wages due by
employers under R.S. 23:631-23:639 and employers shall be obligated to pay
the said amounts to the trust funds, trustees, or other obligees to whom such
payments shall be due and owing in the same manner and subject to the same
penalties for nonpayment and the same provisions as to collection and
enforcement by the said obligees as apply to ordinary wages under R.S.
23:631-23:639.
Added by Acts 1966, No. 536, §1; Acts 2008, No. 743, §7.