This is a reminder that New York employers must provide the first yearly Wage Theft Prevention Act ("WTPA") notices to employees between January 1 and February 1, 2012. (For background on The Wage Theft Prevention Act, see our December 2010 and April 2011 WTPA alerts.)
The New York Department of Labor ("NYDOL") has now
published model dual language forms in Chinese, Haitian Creole,
Korean, Polish, Russian, and Spanish. These forms are located on
the NYDOL website. If an employee designates
one of the above-referenced languages as his or her primary
language, the notice must be given to the employee in that language
as well as in English. If the employee designates as his primary
language a foreign language for which the NYDOL does not provide a
form notice, the notice may be given to the employee in English
alone.
The NYDOL has also created a Wage Theft Prevention Act FAQ on its website.
Notices must be kept by employers for six years and must be available to the NYDOL upon request.
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