If a contractor receives proper written notification and fails to notify a subcontractor of a prevailing wage project, they are liable for the interest, penalties or fines assessed by the Department. A subcontractor is nevertheless responsible for paying the proper prevailing wage rate of pay.
The President is both the head of state and head of government of the United States of America, and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces. Under Article II of the Constitution, the President is responsible for the execution and enforcement of the laws created by Congress. Fifteen executive departments â each led by an appointed member of the President's Cabinet â carry out the day-to-day administration of the federal government.
The head of the Executive branch is President who is the Commander-in-chief of the Armed forces, he signs bills that become laws, and he has the cabinet to help him out with the Government and also the Vice President helps at times and the Cabinet has 15 departments in which each department has a certain job to do and the President nominates the Secretaries of the departments but the Senate has to approve them and the President has the power to veto the bills the Congress has made.