New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed Bill A 08106 on December 29, 2014, amending the New York Wage Theft Prevention Act. As shared in our July 1, 2014 CPC blog, the new law eliminates employer’s annual wage notice requirement. Employers, however, are still required to provide wage notice to employees at time of hire. Read more
In July we reported in our blog that the New York Legislature had passed a bill (A08106) that could repeal the 2011 New York State Wage Theft Act. In addition to eliminating the annual wage notice requirement, the law would also increase the penalties for an employer who failed to provide a wage notice to Read more
On April 9, 2011 the New York Wage Theft Prevention Act (WTPA) took effect. Provisions of the law require employers to give written notice of wage rates to each new hire and to ALL employees annually by February 1 each year. The annual notice portion of the law was not well received by employers because Read more
Under the NY Wage Theft Prevention Act New York employers are required to provide all employees written notice of their wage rates each year by February 1, as well as, to each new hire. Visit the New York Department of Labor Standards at http://www.labor.ny.gov/formsdocs/wp/ellsformsandpublications.shtm to download the Notice and Acknowledgement of Pay Rate and Payday Read more
