NY Required Annual Notice of Pay Rates Due by Feb 1
NY Employers: The Wage Theft Prevention Act (WTPA) took effect on April 9, 2011.
The law requires employers to give written notice of wage rates:
- To each new hire
- To all employees by February 1 of each year
The notice must include:
- Rate or rates of pay, including overtime rate of pay (if it applies)
- How the employee is paid: by the hour, shift, day, week, commission, etc.
- Regular payday
- Official name of the employer and any other names used for business (DBA)
- Address and phone number of the employer's main office or principal location
- Allowances taken as part of the minimum wage (tips, meal and lodging deductions)
The notice must be given both in English and in the employee's primary language (if the Labor Department offers a translation; NY DOL currently offers translations in the following languages: Spanish, Chinese, Haitian Creole, Korean, Polish and Russian).
There is some talk of repealing this annual notice provision as costly and unnecessary, as it duplicates information that is already required to be on pay stubs, but until that happens, the usual "penalties for noncompliance can be substantial."