HB 716 — An Act amending the act of July 14, 1961 (P.L.637, No.329), known as the Wage Payment and Collection Law, further providing for notification; providing for duty of employer; and imposing criminal and civil penalties.

PRINTER'S NO.   735

                     THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                         HOUSE BILL
                         No. 716
                                                Session of
                                                  2025

     INTRODUCED BY KINKEAD, D. MILLER, SANCHEZ, WAXMAN, HILL-EVANS,
        ISAACSON, FIEDLER, PROBST, PIELLI, McNEILL, SCHLOSSBERG,
        KHAN, CERRATO, RABB, HADDOCK, NEILSON, HOWARD, WARREN, GIRAL,
        OTTEN, D. WILLIAMS, MAYES, HOHENSTEIN, DEASY, BOYD, GREEN,
        RIVERA, CIRESI, FREEMAN, STEELE AND KENYATTA,
        FEBRUARY 24, 2025

     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND INDUSTRY, FEBRUARY 24, 2025


                                    AN ACT
 1   Amending the act of July 14, 1961 (P.L.637, No.329), entitled
 2      "An act relating to the payment of wages or compensation for
 3      labor or services; providing for regular pay days; conferring
 4      powers and duties upon the Department of Labor and Industry,
 5      including powers and duties with respect to the civil
 6      collection of wages; providing civil and criminal penalties
 7      for violations of the act; providing for their collection and
 8      disposition and providing for additional civil damages,"
 9      further providing for notification; providing for duty of
10      employer; and imposing criminal and civil penalties.
11      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
12   hereby enacts as follows:
13      Section 1.    Section 4 of the act of July 14, 1961 (P.L.637,
14   No.329), known as the Wage Payment and Collection Law, is
15   amended to read:
16      Section 4.    Notification.--(a)   It shall be the duty of every
17   employer to notify his employes at the time of hiring of the
18   time and place of payment and the rate of pay and the amount of
19   any fringe benefits or wage supplements to be paid to the
20   employe, a third party or a fund for the benefit of the employe
 1   and any change with respect to any of these items prior to the
 2   time of said change. Alternatively, however, every employer may
 3   give such notification by posting the aforementioned facts and
 4   keeping them posted conspicuously at the employer's place of
 5   business. Further, in cases where wages, amounts of any fringe
 6   benefits or wage supplements are set forth in a bona fide
 7   collective bargaining agreement and copies of that agreement are
 8   available to employes, then this shall satisfy the employer's
 9   duty to give notice.
10      (b)   It shall be the duty of every employer to provide notice
11   to his employes at the time of hiring of a summary of this act
12   and any regulations issued under this act applicable to the
13   employer.
14      Section 2.   The act is amended by adding a section to read:
15      Section 8.1.     Duty of Employer.--(a)   Every employer shall
16   keep a summary of this act and any regulations issued under this
17   act applicable to the employer posted in a conspicuous place
18   where employes normally pass and can read it. Employers shall,
19   upon request to the department, be furnished with copies of the
20   summary without charge.
21      (b)   Every employer who fails to provide notice to an employe
22   as required under section 4(b), or fails to post in a
23   conspicuous place a summary of this act and any regulations as
24   required under subsection (a), shall be guilty of a summary
25   offense and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a
26   fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500).
27      Section 3.   Section 9.1(g) of the act is amended to read:
28      Section 9.1.     Civil Remedies and Penalties.--* * *
29      (g)   [No] (1)    Except as provided in paragraph (2), no
30   administrative proceedings or legal action shall be instituted

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 1   under the provisions of this act for the collection of unpaid
 2   wages or liquidated damages more than three years after the day
 3   on which such wages were due and payable as provided in sections
 4   3 and 5.
 5      (2)     If an employer has failed to provide notice to an
 6   employe as required under section 4 or has failed to post a
 7   summary as required under section 8.1, the time limitation under
 8   paragraph (1) shall not apply. However, no administrative
 9   proceeding or legal action shall be instituted under the
10   provisions of this act for the collection of unpaid wages or
11   liquidated damages more than three years after the day on which
12   such wages were due and payable, as provided in sections 3 and
13   5, or the day on which the notice requirements under section 4
14   or the posting requirements under section 8.1 are satisfied,
15   whichever is later.
16      Section 4.    This act shall take effect in 60 days.




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