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SB 816 Payment of wages to employees; requires employers to maintain and preserve certain records.
Introduced by: A. Donald McEachin | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Payment of wages to employees. Requires employers to maintain and preserve records regarding the rate of pay, hours worked, earnings due, wages paid, and related matters for each employee. The measure provides a standard for how an employee, in an action to collect unpaid wages, may meet his burden of establishing that he is entitled to the wages. The measure also amends an employee's existing private right of action for unpaid wages by requiring the court to award attorney fees and other costs to a prevailing employee. In such a proceeding, unless the employer shows good faith, the court shall award to the employee three times the amount of unpaid wages. An action for unpaid wages shall be commenced within two years after the action accrued, or within three years if the violation is willful. The measure will not become effective if a general fund appropriation restores funding for six wage investigator positions at the Department of Labor and Industry.
FULL TEXT
- 12/20/12 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 13100819D pdf | impact statement
- 01/25/13 Senate: Printed as engrossed 13100819D-E pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 12/20/12 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 13100819D
- 12/20/12 Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 01/14/13 Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor (13-Y 0-N)
- 01/14/13 Senate: Rereferred to Finance
- 01/23/13 Senate: Reported from Finance with amendment (14-Y 0-N)
- 01/24/13 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 01/25/13 Senate: Read second time
- 01/25/13 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 01/25/13 Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
- 01/25/13 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended SB816E
- 01/25/13 Senate: Printed as engrossed 13100819D-E
- 01/28/13 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/13 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/02/13 House: Read first time
- 02/02/13 House: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 02/12/13 House: Failed to report (defeated) in Commerce and Labor (6-Y 10-N)