Introduced in House | Passed House | Introduced in Senate | Passed Senate | Became Law |
01/01/2020 |
Nonpayment of wages; investigations.
Authorizes the Commissioner of Labor and Industry, if he acquires information during an investigation of a complaint of an employer's failure or refusal to pay wages and that information creates a reasonable belief that other employees of the same employer may not have been paid wages, to investigate whether the employer has failed or refused to make a required payment of wages to other employees. The measure also provides that if the Commissioner finds in the course of such investigation that the employer has committed a violation, the Commissioner may institute proceedings on behalf of any employee against his employer. In such proceedings, the Commissioner is not required to have obtained a written complaint of the violation or the written and signed consent of any employee.
Date | Version | TXT | ||
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01/01/2020 | House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102626D | Open |
20102626D2020 SESSION
Patrons-- Price, Bagby, Bourne, Delaney, Hope, Jenkins, Kory, Krizek, Levine, Lindsey, Simon, Simonds and Willett
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 40.1-29.1 as follows:
� 40.1-29.1. Investigations of employers for nonpayment of wages.
If in the course of an investigation of a complaint of an employers failure or refusal to pay wages in accordance with the requirements of � 40.1-29, the Commissioner acquires information creating a reasonable belief that other employees of the same employer may not have been paid wages in accordance with such requirements, the Commissioner shall have the authority to investigate whether the employer has failed or refused to make any required payment of wages to other employees of the employer as required by � 40.1-29. If the Commissioner finds in the course of such investigation that the employer has violated a provision of � 40.1-29, the Commissioner may institute proceedings on behalf of any employee against his employer. Such proceedings shall be undertaken in accordance with the provisions of � 40.1-29, except that the Commissioner shall not require a written complaint of the violation or the written and signed consent of any employee as a condition of instituting such proceedings.
Picture | Name | From | Date | Type |
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Marcia S. (Cia) Price | D-Richmond | Sponsor | ||
Rodney T. Willett | D-Richmond | Cosponsor | ||
Shelly A. Simonds | D-Richmond | Cosponsor | ||
Marcus B. Simon | D-Richmond | Cosponsor | ||
Joseph C. Lindsey | D-Richmond | Cosponsor | ||
Paul E. Krizek | D-Richmond | Cosponsor | ||
Kaye Kory | D-Richmond | Cosponsor | ||
Clinton L. Jenkins | D-Richmond | Cosponsor | ||
Patrick A. Hope | D-Richmond | Cosponsor | ||
Karrie K. Delaney | D-Richmond | Cosponsor | ||
Jeffrey M. Bourne | D-Richmond | Cosponsor | ||
Lamont Bagby | D-Richmond | Cosponsor |
Date | Branch | Action |
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01/30/2020 | House | House: Reported from Labor and Commerce (16-Y 6-N) |
01/28/2020 | House | House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N) |
01/21/2020 | House | House: Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #1 |
01/16/2020 | House | House: Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce |
01/01/2020 | House | House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102626D |
01/01/2020 | House | House: Referred to Committee on General Laws |