Bill Text: IA SF398 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act permitting employers to provide employees with wage statements by electronic means.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-02 - Subcommittee: Bertrand, C. Johnson, and McCoy. S.J. 457. [SF398 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-SF398-Introduced.html

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Senate File 398 - Introduced




                                 SENATE FILE       
                                 BY  DANIELSON

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act permitting employers to provide employees with wage
  2    statements by electronic means.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 91A.6, subsection 4, Code 2017, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    4.  a.  On each regular payday, the employer shall send
  1  4  provide to each employee by mail or shall provide at the
  1  5 employee's normal place of employment during normal employment
  1  6 hours a statement showing the hours the employee worked, the
  1  7 wages earned by the employee, and deductions made for the
  1  8 employee.
  1  9    b.  The employer shall provide the statement using one of the
  1 10 following methods:
  1 11    (1)  Sending the statement to an employee by mail.
  1 12    (2)  Sending the statement to an employee by secure
  1 13 electronic transmission or by other secure electronic means.
  1 14    (3)  Providing the statement to the employee at the
  1 15 employee's normal place of employment during normal employment
  1 16 hours.
  1 17    c.  However, the employer need not provide information
  1 18 on hours worked for employees who are exempt from overtime
  1 19 under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, as defined in  29 C.F.R. pt. 541
  1 20 , unless the employer has established a policy
  1 21 or practice of paying to or on behalf of exempt employees
  1 22 overtime, a bonus, or a payment based on hours worked,
  1 23 whereupon the employer shall send or otherwise provide a
  1 24 statement to the exempt employees showing the hours the
  1 25 employee worked or the payments made to the employee by the
  1 26 employer, as applicable.
  1 27    d.  An employer who provides each employee access to view an
  1 28 electronic statement of the employee's earnings and provides
  1 29 the employee free and unrestricted access to a printer to print
  1 30 the employee's statement of earnings, if the employee chooses,
  1 31 is in compliance with this subsection.
  1 32                           EXPLANATION
  1 33 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 34 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 35    Current law requires employers to provide certain employees
  2  1 on each regular payday with statements showing hours worked,
  2  2 wages earned, and pay deductions made. The employer may send
  2  3 the statement by mail or provide it at the employee's normal
  2  4 place of employment during normal employment hours. This bill
  2  5 also permits an employer to provide the statement by secure
  2  6 electronic transmission or by other secure electronic means.
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