Any required employer, an officer or agent of such employer, or the officer or agent of any corporation, firm or partnership who wilfully fails to furnish time and wage records as required by law to the commissioner, the director or any wage enforcement agent upon request or who refuses to admit the commissioner, the director or such agent to a place of employment or who hinders or delays the commissioner, the director or such agent in the performance of any duties in the enforcement of this section shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, and each day of such failure to furnish time and wage records to the commissioner, the director or such agent shall constitute a separate offense, and each day of refusal of admittance, of hindering or of delaying the commissioner, the director or such agent shall constitute a separate offense. This act shall take effect July 1, 1999. The Labor Commissioner must access the federal register to establish rates on all hourly nonsupervisory employees. This amount can be handled within the anticipated budgetary resources of the Department of Labor. The passage of this bill would result in significant additional costs and in a potential revenue loss to the state, especially in future years.
Many state agencies utilize contracted building maintenance services and food services.
The bill requires that these workers be paid at the standard wages for their position, as determined by the Commissioner of the Department of Labor. The wage differentials would vary by job title and by service provider. They equate to about 350 full-time positions. The state's method in contracting for building maintenance services differs from the contracting for food services, and therefore, the fiscal impact differs as well. Costs would be incurred by the state gradually, beginning with contracts that are new or renewed after September 30, 1999.