HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 4462

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, February 27, 2020.

The committee on Labor and Workforce Development, to whom was referred the petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1680) of David Allen Robertson and others relative to employee compensation, reports recommending that the accompanying bill (House, No. 4462) ought to pass.

For the committee,

STEPHAN HAY.

        FILED ON: 2/3/2020

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 4462

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the One Hundred and Ninety-First General Court
(2019-2020)

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An Act ensuring fair and full employee compensation.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

Section 1. Section 148 of Chapter 149 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2018 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the word “reasonable”, in line 107, the following sentence:-

Any employer paying wages to an employee by any means other than check or draft must make check or draft options available for the paid wages without charge by deduction from the face amount thereof or otherwise.