Bill Text: MN HF1414 | 2013-2014 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Payment of wages, payroll, and payroll deductions modified.
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-11 - Introduction and first reading, referred to Labor, Workplace and Regulated Industries [HF1414 Detail]
Download: Minnesota-2013-HF1414-Introduced.html
1.2relating to employment; modifying payment of wages and payroll and payroll
1.3deductions;amending Minnesota Statutes 2012, sections 181.06, subdivision 2;
1.4181.101.
1.5BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.6 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 181.06, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
1.7 Subd. 2. Payroll deductions. A written contract may be entered into between
1.8an employer and an employee wherein the employee authorizes the employer to make
1.9payroll deductions for the purpose of paying union dues, premiums of any life insurance,
1.10hospitalization and surgical insurance, group accident and health insurance, group term
1.11life insurance, group annuities or contributions to credit unions or a community chest
1.12fund, a local arts council, a local science council or a local arts and science council, or
1.13Minnesota benefit association, a federally or state registered political action committee,
1.14membership dues of a relief association governed by sections 69.77 or 67.771 to 69.776 or
1.15participation in any employee stock purchase plan or savings plan for periods longer than
1.1660 days, including gopher state bonds established under section16A.645 .
1.17EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective August 1, 2013.
1.18 Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 181.101, is amended to read:
1.19181.101 WAGES; HOW OFTEN PAID.
1.20Every employer must pay all wages earned by an employee at least once every 31
1.21days on a regular payday designated in advance by the employerregardless of whether the
1.22employee requests unless the employer and the employee mutually agree upon payment
1.23at longer intervals. Unless paid earlier, the wages earned during the first half of the first
2.131-day pay period become due on the first regular payday following the first day of work.
2.2If wages earned are not paid, the commissioner of labor and industry or the commissioner's
2.3representative may demand payment on behalf of an employee. If payment is not made
2.4within ten days of demand, the commissioner may charge and collect the wages earned
2.5and a penalty in the amount of the employee's average daily earnings at the rate agreed
2.6upon in the contract of employment, not exceeding 15 days in all, for each day beyond the
2.7ten-day limit following the demand. Money collected by the commissioner must be paid
2.8to the employee concerned. This section does not prevent an employee from prosecuting a
2.9claim for wages. This section does not prevent a school district, other public school
2.10entity, or other school, as defined under section120A.22 , from paying any wages earned
2.11by its employees during a school year on regular paydays in the manner provided by an
2.12applicable contract or collective bargaining agreement, or a personnel policy adopted by
2.13the governing board. For purposes of this section, "employee" includes a person who
2.14performs agricultural labor as defined in section181.85, subdivision 2 . For purposes of
2.15this section, wages are earned on the day an employee works.
2.16EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment.
1.3deductions;amending Minnesota Statutes 2012, sections 181.06, subdivision 2;
1.4181.101.
1.5BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.6 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 181.06, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
1.7 Subd. 2. Payroll deductions. A written contract may be entered into between
1.8an employer and an employee wherein the employee authorizes the employer to make
1.9payroll deductions for the purpose of paying union dues, premiums of any life insurance,
1.10hospitalization and surgical insurance, group accident and health insurance, group term
1.11life insurance, group annuities or contributions to credit unions or a community chest
1.12fund, a local arts council, a local science council or a local arts and science council, or
1.13Minnesota benefit association, a federally or state registered political action committee,
1.14membership dues of a relief association governed by sections 69.77 or 67.771 to 69.776 or
1.15participation in any employee stock purchase plan or savings plan for periods longer than
1.1660 days, including gopher state bonds established under section
1.17EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective August 1, 2013.
1.18 Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 181.101, is amended to read:
1.19181.101 WAGES; HOW OFTEN PAID.
1.20Every employer must pay all wages earned by an employee at least once every 31
1.21days on a regular payday designated in advance by the employer
1.22
1.23at longer intervals. Unless paid earlier, the wages earned during the first half of the first
2.131-day pay period become due on the first regular payday following the first day of work.
2.2If wages earned are not paid, the commissioner of labor and industry or the commissioner's
2.3representative may demand payment on behalf of an employee. If payment is not made
2.4within ten days of demand, the commissioner may charge and collect the wages earned
2.5and a penalty in the amount of the employee's average daily earnings at the rate agreed
2.6upon in the contract of employment, not exceeding 15 days in all, for each day beyond the
2.7ten-day limit following the demand. Money collected by the commissioner must be paid
2.8to the employee concerned. This section does not prevent an employee from prosecuting a
2.9claim for wages. This section does not prevent a school district, other public school
2.10entity, or other school, as defined under section
2.11by its employees during a school year on regular paydays in the manner provided by an
2.12applicable contract or collective bargaining agreement, or a personnel policy adopted by
2.13the governing board. For purposes of this section, "employee" includes a person who
2.14performs agricultural labor as defined in section
2.15this section, wages are earned on the day an employee works.
2.16EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment.
