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In building, reconstruction, repair works, or works for the improvement of property, done by the job and in any other work in which contractors, subcontractors, ajustadores, foremen, or any agent or representative of the employer intervenes, the employee shall also be entitled to additional compensation on the basis of the double wages that §§ 271—288 of this title fix for extra hours of work.In these cases the owner, or the person for whom the works are constructed or the work is done, shall be liable jointly with the contractor, subcontractor, ajustador, foreman, agent or representative of the employer, for the payment of the wages earned in regular hours and extra hours of work; Provided, That no action or claim may be filed against the owner or grantee of the works one year after the work for which payment is claimed has been finished, except when the work is done by force account [sic], in which case the provisions on limitation of actions claiming wages of § 32 of Act June 26, 1956, No. 96 shall govern. History —May 15, 1948, No. 379, p. 1254, § 10; Apr. 26, 1963, No. 12, p. 16; renumbered as § 11 on July 20, 1995, No. 83, § 5.