Chapter 340
2011 -- S 0034
Enacted 07/13/11
A N A C T
RELATING TO
LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- PAYMENT OF WAGES
Introduced By: Senators Tassoni, Bates, Lombardo, and Doyle
Date Introduced: January 11, 2011
It is enacted by the General
Assembly as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 28-14-2.2 of the General Laws in Chapter
28-14 entitled "Payment
of Wages" is hereby amended to read as follows:
28-14-2.2.
Frequency of payment. – (a) Except as provided in sections 28-14-4 and 28-
14-5, every employee other than employees of the state
and its political subdivisions and of
religious, literary, or charitable corporations shall be paid
weekly all due wages from his or her
employer, except those employees whose compensation is fixed
at a biweekly, semi-monthly,
monthly, or yearly rate.
(b) The director may,
upon written petition showing good and sufficient reason, permit
the employer and its affiliates to pay wages less
frequently than weekly provided: (1) The
employer or one or more of its affiliates is in the financial
services or investment advisory
business; (2) The employer and its affiliates have more than
two thousand (2,000) employees
located in
percent (125%) of the average compensation of all employees
in the state as defined in subsection
42-64.11-2(c); (4) The
employer makes payment of wages regularly on a predesignated
date no
less than twice per month; and (5) The employer provides
proof of a surety bond or other
sufficient demonstration of security in the amount of the
highest biweekly payroll exposure in the
preceding year for the employees subject to the petition.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.
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