Wage Theft Prevention Act
In April 2011, the NYSDOL put in place rigid requirements for notifying employees of pay changes, known as the Wage Theft Prevention Act (WTPA.) Then in 2015 after many employers voiced their concerns about the value and burden of these regulations, they loosened the notification requirements to essentially say that notification must be given upon hire and in the event of a pay decrease. Great news, right? Not so fast. There is the law of unintended consequences to deal with. While not the intention of the NYSDOL, we have seen these notices play an important supporting role in a few different places....
March 18, 2020