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DIGEST OF HB1051 (Updated January 25, 2005 3:35 pm - DI 84)
Wage assignment and wage payment. Permits a wage assignment for payment for: (1) uniforms; and (2) tools and portable equipment. Increases to $3,000 the amount of the maximum wage claim for which the commissioner of the department of labor may take an assignment. Repeals and relocates language making it a Class C infraction for an employer to sell merchandise or supplies to an employee for a price higher than to the public. Repeals chapter concerning the regulation of wage payments, which includes the following provisions: (1) a provision requiring an employer to pay employees in commercial paper; (2) a duplicate provision concerning frequency of wage payments; and (3) a provision containing outdated language concerning liens of laborers. Requires an employer to make payment to an employee, by semimonthly or biweekly payment, for all wages earned to a date not more than ten business days prior to the date of payment. Specifies that if an employee has left employment voluntarily and the employer does not know the whereabouts or address of the employee, that the employer is not subject to payment of liquidated damages for the failure to pay wages timely until: (1) ten business days have elapsed after the employee has made a demand for the wages; or (2) the employee has given the employer the employee's address. (Current law: (1) requires payment to be made for wages earned to a date not more than ten days prior to the date of payment; and (2) provides that in the event that the employee's whereabouts are unknown, the employer is not subject to payment of liquidated damages until ten business days have elapsed after the employee has made a demand for the wages due.)
