I had someone ask me how they can get my updates if they are not on Facebook — I decided I would post the updates here as well as best I can – once a week.
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Thursday, June 14, 2012 at 3:02pm
Do you take advantage of electronic reporting of First Reports of Injuries?
http://www.labor.vermont.gov/Default.aspx?tabid=154
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Thursday, June 14, 2012 at 8:09am
School Employee’s Pay
This session of the VT Legislature produced some changes to how school’s pay their employees.
Title 21 (Labor) Chapter 5 (Employment Practices) Section 342 titled “Weekly Payment of Wages” will be amended to read:
§ 342. WEEKLY PAYMENT OF WAGES
(a)(1) Any person having employees doing and transacting business within the state shall pay each week, in lawful money or checks, the wages earned by each employee to a day not more than six days prior to the date of such payment.
(2) After giving written notice to the employees, any person having employees doing and transacting business within the state may, notwithstanding subdivision (1) of this subsection, pay biweekly or semimonthly in lawful money or checks, each employee the wages earned by the employee to a day not more than six days prior to the date of the payment. If a collective bargaining agreement so provides, the payment may be made to a day not more than 13 days prior to the date of payment.
This was added to the law effective this school year 2012-2013
(3) A school district employee may elect in writing to have a set amount or set percentage of his or her after-tax wages withheld by the school district in a district-held bank account each pay period. The percentage or amount withheld shall be determined by the employee. At the option of the employee, the school district shall disburse the funds to the employee in either a single payment at the time the employee receives his or her final paycheck of the school year, or in equal weekly or biweekly sums beginning at the end of the school year. The school district shall disburse funds from the account in any sum as requested by the employee and, at the end of the school year or at the employee’s option over the course of the period between the current and next school year, or upon separation from employment, shall remit to the employee any remaining funds, including interest earnings, held in the account. For employees within a bargaining unit organized pursuant to either chapter 22 of this title or 16 V.S.A. chapter 57, the school district shall implement this election in a manner consistent with the provisions of this subdivision and as determined through negotiations under those chapters. For employees not within a bargaining unit, the school district shall, in a manner consistent with this subdivision, determine the manner in which to implement this subdivision.
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(also includes other info on school employee’s pay)
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