Under Oregon SB 426, general contractors and project owners are jointly liable for unpaid wages at every sub tier — even if you paid your subs in full. WageGuard collects, verifies, and documents certified payroll across your entire subcontractor chain, turning liability exposure into a defensible audit trail.
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SB 426 extends wage liability through every subcontractor tier — but gives you no tools to manage it. Most GCs are chasing PDFs over email with no audit trail.
You have the legal right to demand certified payroll from every tier — but records arrive as inconsistent PDFs and spreadsheets with no proof of when they were requested, received, or reviewed.
If a sub refuses to submit records, you're still on the hook for their wage violations. Documented due diligence is your only leverage — and your only defense in litigation.
You know your first-tier subs. But SB 426 liability extends through second and third tiers you've never seen. Workers on site without contracts create implied-subcontractor risk.
From invitation to court-admissible certificate in four steps.
Add a project and invite every sub with one action. Each sub signs the 5-year wage violation affidavit on first login — e-signed, timestamped, stored immutably.
Subs upload weekly payroll in any format — CSV, Excel, or PDF from ADP, Sage, Paylocity, LCPtracker. Automated escalating reminders chase the stragglers for you.
Every submission is checked against Oregon wage thresholds by classification. Anomalies flagged: missing workers, rate drops, incomplete weeks — with plain-language explanations.
One click produces a cryptographically signed, timestamped compliance certificate — the complete audit trail, designed to be court-admissible proof of due diligence.
A rough estimate of the unpaid-wage liability sitting in your project portfolio right now — before penalty wages, interest, and attorneys' fees.
Payroll tools serve subcontractors. Workforce trackers count heads on site. WageGuard is the only platform built for the party actually carrying the liability: you.
Even if you paid every sub correctly, you're liable if a sub-tier worker wasn't paid. The only way to limit exposure is verified records, collected before each pay cycle, preserved as an audit trail.
Verification logic built directly against Oregon minimum wage schedules, prevailing wage tables, and SB 426's affidavit requirements. Not a generic tool with a checkbox.
First-tier subs declare their subs. WageGuard maps the full contracting tree and extends compliance requests through every tier — surfacing implied-subcontractor risk before it surfaces you.
Every pay period without documented compliance is uncovered liability. Get your first project protected this week.
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