NYS Wage Theft Prevention Act
March 29, 2011 - New York City
In April 2011, the NYS Wage Theft Prevention Act, one of the nation’s strongest wage protection laws, goes into effect. This comprehensive bill reforms New York's minimum wage, overtime, and payment of wages laws. It will quadruple fines for underpayment of wages. Further, it will better protect whistleblowers from retaliation, including prohibiting threats of retaliations and a new remedy of up to $10,000 for victims, as well as criminal penalties for violators. The law also amends existing wage rate notice and paystub requirements, including provision of multilingual notice forms to employees and new statutory damages for violations of notice and paystub rules. The program will cover what management and employee advocates need to know to effectively advise and represent their clients.
Our panel for this program includes: (Click on name for bio)
• Stephen A. Fuchs, Esq. (ILR’88), Shareholder, Littler Mendelson P.C.
• Amy Carroll, Esq., Legal Director, Make the Road New York
• Lorelei Salas, Esq., Director of Strategic Enforcement, Labor Standards Division, NYS Department of Labor
PROGRAM MATERIALS:
Speaker Powerpoint Presentations
Amy Carroll Presentation
Advocate Summaries of the Act
Littler Wage Theft Summary
WTPA Summary
The Legislation
New York State Labor Law Sections
Links:
The legislation: http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/menugetf.cgi?COMMONQUERY=LAWS
The Industrial Board of Appeals (administrative body that reviews labor standards determinations): http://www.labor.state.ny.us/iba/index.asp
The DOL counsel’s opinion letters: http://www.labor.ny.gov/legal/counsel/counsel-opinion-letters.page
The page where the pay notices are now posted (and where the new ones should be posted soon): http://www.labor.ny.gov/workerprotection/laborstandards/workprot/lshmpg.shtm
Was held on Tuesday, March 29, 2011 from 8:30am – 11:00am at the NYC Cornell University offices on E 34th Street
CLE CREDIT:
2.0 Professional Practice (Transitional and Non-Transitional)
Co-sponsored by: Littler - Employment and Labor Law Solutions Worldwide