A bill to amend 1978 PA 390, entitled “An act to regulate the time and manner of payment of wages and fringe benefits to employees; to prescribe rights and responsibilities of employers and employees, and the powers and duties of the department of labor; to require keeping of records; to provide for settlement of disputes regarding wages and fringe benefits; to prohibit certain practices by employers; to prescribe penalties and remedies; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 18 (MCL 408.488).
Proposes that employers who violate specified sections of the act must compensate affected employees by paying owed wages and fringe benefits, a penalty of 100% annually on the due amounts from the notification of a complaint until payment, and potentially exemplary damages up to three times the owed amount for flagrant or repeated violations.
Co-sponsored by Reps.
Referred to the Committee on Labor
Reported without amendment
