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Sharon Pollard
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Please help!! I work for a small iron erection company. We had a contract with a fabricator to build a school in Richmond, VA. We had been there for months just putting up steel and taking it back down, because of fabrication problems. The General contractor had asked the fabricator to leave the premises. We were told to leave also. The General contractor then tried to get several fabricators to come and complete the job, but noone would touch it because of the problems. The GC had to ask the fabricator who originally had the job to come back. The fabricator in turn asked us to come back. My boss told him we would come back if they would pay for the ot that would be necessary. They said ok. We told them we could not bring our crane back because we had to have it at another job. We had had it there for longer than expected originally. We told him hat he would have to rent a crane and pay for the expense. He refused. My boss told him we could not bring our crane back at that time. When we were asked to leave the GC had approved to pay us for time worked. To this date we have not been pd. We did not return. My question is, did we breach the contract by not returning when asked. The fabricator has sent us a letter stating we did and says he could charge us for liquidated damages. Is this true? The original contract from the GC says they will supply an experienced fabricator, which they did not. All the problems we had were due to fabrication. I have done some research. If the fabricator did not supply us with the material to complete the job in a timely manner, which caused us to be asked to leave the jobsite, well then, didn't he breach the contract?