Bill Text: CT HB05237 | 2012 | General Assembly | Chaptered
Bill Title: An Act Concerning Payment Of Wages For Employees Of An Entity Called A State-aided Institution.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1-1)
Status: (Passed) 2012-06-06 - Signed by the Governor [HB05237 Detail]
Download: Connecticut-2012-HB05237-Chaptered.html
Substitute House Bill No. 5237
AN ACT CONCERNING PAYMENT OF WAGES FOR EMPLOYEES OF AN ENTITY CALLED A STATE-AIDED INSTITUTION.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 31-71b of the 2012 supplement to the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage):
(a) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (2) of this subsection, each employer, or the agent or representative of an employer, shall pay weekly all moneys due each employee on a regular pay day, designated in advance by the employer, in cash, by negotiable checks or, upon an employee's written request, by credit to such employee's account in any bank that has agreed with the employer to accept such wage deposits.
(2) Unless otherwise requested by the recipient, the Comptroller shall, as soon as is practicable, pay all wages due each state employee, as defined in section 5-196, by electronic direct deposit to such employee's account in any bank, Connecticut credit union or federal credit union that has agreed with the Comptroller to accept such wage deposits.
(b) The end of the pay period for which payment is made on a regular pay day shall be not more than eight days before such regular pay day, provided, if such regular pay day falls on a nonwork day, payment shall be made on the preceding work day.
(c) This section shall not be construed to prohibit a local or regional board of education or an entity called a state-aided institution pursuant to section 5-175 and a recognized or certified exclusive bargaining representative of its certified or noncertified employees from including within their collective bargaining agreement a schedule for the payment of wages to certified employees or noncertified employees that differs from the requirements of subsections (a) and (b) of this section.
(d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to apply to employees swapping workdays or shifts as permitted under a collective bargaining agreement.