{"id":7312,"date":"2013-01-09T11:26:39","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T11:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/affinityhrgroup.com\/2019\/05\/new-york-state-wage-notification-requirement\/"},"modified":"2013-01-09T11:26:39","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T11:26:39","slug":"new-york-state-wage-notification-requirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworkplaceadvisors.com\/new-york-state-wage-notification-requirement\/","title":{"rendered":"New York State Wage Notification Requirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Employers who have employees in New York are required to issue annual notices under the Wage\u00a0Theft Prevention Act (&#8220;WTPA&#8221;)\u00a0to all New York employees between January 1 and February 1, 2013.\u00a0 Although a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nylaborandemploymentlawreport.com\/2012\/01\/articles\/new-york-law\/bill-introduced-in-the-new-york-state-legislature-to-repeal-the-wtpa-annual-notice-requirement\/\">bill was introduced<\/a>\u00a0in the New York State Legislature to repeal the annual notice requirement in early 2012 (which was the first year that the annual notice requirement was in effect), the bill passed in the Senate but remains dormant in the Assembly.\u00a0 Therefore, the WTPA annual notice requirement\u00a0continues to be\u00a0in effect.<\/p>\n<p>Tthe annual notice must contain the following information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the employee&#8217;s rate or rates of pay (for non-exempt employees, this must include both the regular rate and overtime rate);<\/li>\n<li>the employee&#8217;s basis of pay (<em>e.g.<\/em>,\u00a0hourly, shift, day, week,\u00a0salary, piece, commission, or other);<\/li>\n<li>allowances, if any, claimed as part of the minimum wage (<em>e.g.<\/em>, tips, meals, lodging);<\/li>\n<li>the regular pay day; and<\/li>\n<li>the name (including any &#8220;doing business as&#8221; name), address, and telephone number of the employer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The annual notice must be provided to each employee in English and in the primary language identified by each employee, if the New York State Department of Labor (&#8220;NYSDOL&#8221;)\u00a0has prepared a dual-language form for the language identified by the employee.\u00a0 At this point, the NYSDOL has prepared dual-language forms in Chinese, Haitian Creole, Korean, Polish, Russian, and Spanish.\u00a0 The English-only and dual-language forms created by the NYSDOL are available on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.labor.ny.gov\/formsdocs\/wp\/ellsformsandpublications.shtm\">NYSDOL&#8217;s web site<\/a>.\u00a0 If an employee identifies a primary language other than one of the six languages for which a dual-language form is available, the employer may provide the annual notice in English only.\u00a0 Employers are not required to use the NYSDOL&#8217;s forms, but employers who create their own forms must be sure that all of the information required by the WTPA\u00a0is included.<\/p>\n<p>Employers are required to obtain a signed acknowledgment of receipt of the annual notice from each employee.\u00a0 The acknowledgment must include an affirmation by the employee\u00a0that the employee accurately identified to the employer his\/her primary language, and that the notice was in the language so identified.\u00a0 Signed acknowledgments must be maintained for at least six years.<\/p>\n<p>Blog Reposted from Bont Schoeneck &amp; King PLLC &#8216;s New York Labor and Employment Law Report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employers who have employees in New York are required to issue annual notices under the Wage\u00a0Theft Prevention Act (&#8220;WTPA&#8221;)\u00a0to all New York employees between January 1 and February 1, 2013.\u00a0 Although a\u00a0bill was introduced\u00a0in the New York State Legislature to repeal the annual notice requirement in early 2012 (which was the first year that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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