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2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 22. Judiciary › Chapter 30. Judicial Conduct › Sec. 22.30.010. Commission on Judicial Conduct.

The Commission on Judicial Conduct shall consist of nine members as follows: three persons who are justices or judges of state courts, elected by the justices and judges of the state courts; three members who have practiced law in this state for 10 years, appointed by the governor from nominations made by the governing body of the organized bar and subject to confirmation by a majority of the members of the legislature in joint session; and three citizens who are not judges, retired judges, or members of the state bar, appointed by the governor and subject to confirmation by a majority of the members of the legislature in joint session. Commission membership terminates if a member ceases to hold the position that qualified that person for appointment. A person may not serve on the commission and on the judicial council simultaneously. A quorum of the commission must include at least one person who is a justice or judge, at least one person appointed by the governor who has practiced law in the state for 10 years, and at least one citizen member who is not a justice, judge, or member of the state bar. The commission shall elect one of its members to serve as chairman for a term prescribed by the commission. A vacancy shall be filled by the appointing power for the remainder of the term.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 22. Judiciary › Chapter 30. Judicial Conduct › Sec. 22.30.011. Powers and duties of the commission.

(a) The commission shall on its own motion or on receipt of a written complaint inquire into an allegation that a judge
(1) has been convicted of a crime punishable as a felony under state or federal law or convicted of a crime that involves moral turpitude under state or federal law;
(2) suffers from a disability that seriously interferes with the performance of judicial duties and that is or may become permanent;
(3) within a period of not more than six years before the filing of the complaint or before the beginning of the commission's inquiry based on its own motion, committed an act or acts that constitute
(A) wilful misconduct in office;
(B) wilful and persistent failure to perform judicial duties;
(C) conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice;
(D) conduct that brings the judicial office into disrepute; or
(E) conduct in violation of the code of judicial conduct; or
(4) is habitually intemperate.
(b) After preliminary informal consideration of an allegation, the commission may exonerate the judge, informally and privately admonish the judge, or recommend counseling. Upon a finding of probable cause, the commission shall hold a formal hearing on the allegation. A hearing under this subsection is public. Proceedings and records pertaining to proceedings that occur before the commission holds a public hearing on an allegation are confidential, subject to the provisions of AS 22.30.060(b).
(c) A judge appearing before the commission at the hearing is entitled to counsel, may present evidence, and may cross-examine witnesses.
(d) The commission shall, after a hearing held under (b) of this section,
(1) exonerate the judge of the charges; or
(2) refer the matter to the supreme court with a recommendation that the judge be reprimanded, suspended, removed, or retired from office or publicly or privately censured by the supreme court.
(e) [Repealed, § 3 ch 135 SLA 1990.]
(f) [Repealed, § 3 ch 135 SLA 1990.]
(g) If the commission exonerates a judge, a copy of the proceedings and report of the commission may be made public on the request of the judge.
(h) If a judge has been publicly reprimanded, suspended, or publicly censured under this section and the judge has filed a declaration of candidacy for retention in office, the commission shall report to the judicial council for inclusion in the statement filed by the judicial council under AS 15.58.050 each public reprimand, suspension, or public censure received by the judge
(1) since appointment; or
(2) if the judge has been retained by election, since the last retention election of the judge.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 22. Judiciary › Chapter 30. Judicial Conduct › Sec. 22.30.020. Employment and compensation generally.

The commission may employ officers, assistants, and other employees that it considers necessary for the performance of the duties and exercise of the powers conferred upon the commission; it may arrange for and compensate medical and other experts and reporters, may arrange for the attendance of witnesses, including witnesses not subject to subpoena, and may pay from funds available to it all expenses reasonably necessary for effectuating the purposes of § 10, art. IV, Constitution of the State of Alaska. The attorney general shall, if requested by the commission, act as its counsel generally or in any particular investigation or proceeding. The commission may employ special counsel from time to time when it considers it necessary.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 22. Judiciary › Chapter 30. Judicial Conduct › Sec. 22.30.060. Rules and confidentiality.

(a) The commission shall adopt rules implementing this chapter and providing for confidentiality of proceedings.
(b) All proceedings, records, files, and reports of the commission are confidential and disclosure may not be made except
(1) upon waiver in writing by the judge at any stage of the proceedings;
(2) if the subject matter or the fact of the filing of charges has become public, in which case the commission may issue a statement in order to confirm the pendency of the investigation, to clarify the procedural aspects of the proceedings, to explain the right of the judge to a fair hearing, or to state that the judge denies the allegations; or
(3) upon filing of formal charges, in which case only the charges, the subsequent formal hearing, and the commission's ultimate decision and minority report, if any, are public; even after formal charges are filed, the deliberations of the commission concerning the case are confidential.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 22. Judiciary › Chapter 30. Judicial Conduct › Sec. 22.30.066. Inquiry.

(a) The commission may subpoena witnesses, administer oaths, take the testimony of any person under oath, and require the production for examination of documents or records relating to its inquiry under AS 22.30.011.
(b) In the course of an inquiry under AS 22.30.011 into judicial misconduct or the disability of a judge, the commission may request the judge to submit to a physical or mental examination. If the judge refuses to submit to the examination, the commission shall determine the issue for which the examination was required adversely to the judge.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 22. Judiciary › Chapter 30. Judicial Conduct › Sec. 22.30.068. Minority reports.

A member of the commission who believes that the commission failed to impose an appropriate disciplinary measure after a hearing under AS 22.30.011(b) may submit a report recommending a different disciplinary measure. The report shall accompany the majority report and may be submitted by the member to the chief justice of the supreme court, the attorney general, and the chair of the senate and house judiciary committees.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 22. Judiciary › Chapter 30. Judicial Conduct › Sec. 22.30.070. Disqualification, suspension, removal, retirement, and censure of judges.

(a) A judge is disqualified from acting as a judge, without loss of salary, while there is pending (1) an indictment or an information charging the judge in the United States with a crime punishable as a felony under Alaska or federal law, or (2) a recommendation to the supreme court by the commission for the removal or retirement of the judge.
(b) On recommendation of the commission, the supreme court may reprimand, publicly or privately censure, or suspend a judge from office without salary when in the United States the judge pleads guilty or no contest or is found guilty of a crime punishable as a felony under state or federal law or of a crime that involves moral turpitude under state or federal law. If the conviction is reversed, suspension terminates, and the judge shall be paid the judge's salary for the period of suspension. If the judge is suspended and the conviction becomes final, the supreme court shall remove the judge from office.
(c) On recommendation of the commission, the supreme court may (1) retire a judge for disability that seriously interferes with the performance of duties and that is or may become permanent, and (2) reprimand, publicly or privately censure, or remove a judge for action occurring not more than six years before the commencement of the judge's current term which constitutes wilful misconduct in the office, wilful and persistent failure to perform duties, habitual intemperance, conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice, or conduct that brings the judicial office into disrepute. The effective date of retirement under (1) of this subsection is the first day of the month coinciding with or after the date that the supreme court files written notice with the commissioner of administration that the judge was retired for disability. A duplicate copy of the notice shall be filed with the judicial council.
(d) A judge retired by the supreme court shall be considered to have retired voluntarily. A judge removed by the supreme court is ineligible for judicial office for a period of three years.
(e) A supreme court justice who has participated in proceedings involving a judge or justice of any court may not participate in an appeal involving that judge or justice in that particular matter.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 22. Judiciary › Chapter 30. Judicial Conduct › Sec. 22.30.080. Definitions.

In this chapter,
(1) “commission” means the Commission on Judicial Conduct provided for in § 10, art. IV, Constitution of the State of Alaska and this chapter;
(2) “judge” means a justice of the supreme court, a judge of the court of appeals, a judge of the superior court, or a judge of the district court who is the subject of an investigation or proceeding under § 10, art. IV, Constitution of the State of Alaska and this chapter, including a justice or judge who is serving in a full-time, part-time, permanent, or temporary position.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 22. Judiciary › Chapter 35. Miscellaneous Provisions › Sec. 22.35.020. Copies of records for child support purposes.

If a copy of a court record is requested by the child support services agency created in AS 25.27.010 or a child support agency of another state, the official custodian of the record shall provide the requesting agency with a copy of the record, including any social security number that the record might contain. If the requested record is maintained by the court system in an electronic data base, the record may be supplied by providing the requesting agency with a copy of the electronic record and a statement certifying its contents. A requesting agency receiving otherwise confidential information under this section may use it only for child support purposes authorized by law.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 22. Judiciary › Chapter 35. Miscellaneous Provisions › Sec. 22.35.030. Records concerning criminal cases resulting in acquittal or dismissal.

The Alaska Court System may not publish a court record of a criminal case on a publicly available website if 60 days have elapsed from the date of acquittal or dismissal and
(1) the defendant was acquitted of all charges filed in the case;
(2) all criminal charges against the defendant in the case have been dismissed and were not dismissed as part of a plea agreement in another criminal case under Rule 11, Alaska Rules of Criminal Procedure;
(3) the defendant was acquitted of some of the criminal charges in the case and the remaining charges were dismissed; or
(4) all criminal charges against the defendant in the case have been dismissed after a suspended entry of judgment under AS 12.55.078.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 05. Department of Labor and Workforce Development › Article 1. Administration. › Sec. 23.05.040. Bond of commissioner.

The commissioner shall give bond approved by the Department of Administration in the sum of $10,000 running to the state, conditioned upon the faithful performance of the duties of the office. The bond shall be filed with the Department of Administration.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 05. Department of Labor and Workforce Development › Article 1. Administration. › Sec. 23.05.055. Electronic filing.

Notwithstanding any contrary provision of the law, if the commissioner determines by order that it is in the public interest, the commissioner may authorize electronic filing of certain information with the department in a format prescribed by the department as an additional means of filing under this title. If the commissioner authorizes electronic filing, the department shall consider the electronic filing as equivalent to paper filing for purposes of compliance with other requirements of this title. Electronic filings authorized under this section are equivalent to paper filings for the purposes of civil or criminal penalties for violations of this title or AS 11.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 05. Department of Labor and Workforce Development › Article 1. Administration. › Sec. 23.05.060. Powers of the department.

The department may
(1) enforce all state labor laws;
(2) act as mediator and appoint deputy commissioners of conciliation in labor disputes whenever it considers the interest of industrial peace requires it;
(3) make investigations and collect and compile statistical information concerning the conditions of labor generally and upon all matters relating to the enforcement of this chapter;
(4) institute court proceedings against an employer of labor without cost to the employee when it is satisfied that the employer has failed to pay an employee an amount due by contract;
(5) issue cease and desist orders and other orders and regulations necessary for the enforcement of state labor laws;
(6) in accordance with AS 37.07 (the Executive Budget Act), receive and spend money derived from agreements with local governments, nongovernmental organizations, or other persons.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 05. Department of Labor and Workforce Development › Article 1. Administration. › Sec. 23.05.065. Fees for publications, research data, and other services.

The commissioner may establish by regulation and the department may charge reasonable fees for department publications, research data, and other centralized administrative services to cover the cost of reproduction, printing, mailing, distribution, and other centralized administrative services.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 05. Department of Labor and Workforce Development › Article 1. Administration. › Sec. 23.05.080. Employer's records.

An employer shall keep an accurate record of the name, address, and occupation of each person employed, of the daily and weekly hours worked by each person, and of the wages paid each pay period to each person. The record shall be kept on file for at least three years.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 05. Department of Labor and Workforce Development › Article 1. Administration. › Sec. 23.05.100. Inspections and examination of records.

The department may
(1) enter a place of employment during regular hours of employment and in cooperation with the employer, or someone designated by the employer, collect facts and statistics relating to the employment of workers;
(2) make inspections for the proper enforcement of all state labor laws;
(3) for the purpose of examination, have access to and copy from any book, account, record, payroll, paper, or document relating to the employment of workers.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 05. Department of Labor and Workforce Development › Article 1. Administration. › Sec. 23.05.120. Cooperation with other agencies.

The department may negotiate with the United States Department of Labor and with other federal and state agencies the arrangements that it considers expedient for cooperation in formulating and carrying out policies and projects designed to encourage and assist in the protection and welfare of labor of the state.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 05. Department of Labor and Workforce Development › Article 1. Administration. › Sec. 23.05.125. Office of citizenship assistance.

(a) The office of citizenship assistance is established in the office of the commissioner. The office shall
(1) provide employment information and referrals to services for legal aliens, including employment services, such as job placement services, and information about how labor unions, administrative agencies, and court actions may be used to deal with claims or charges of job discrimination, illegal termination of employment, sexual harassment, and unsafe working conditions; and
(2) advise the commissioner on
(A) improving employment opportunities for legal aliens;
(B) preventing employment discrimination against legal aliens; and
(C) cooperating with state and federal agencies to accomplish the office's mission.
(b) In this section, “legal alien” means an individual who resides in Alaska, is not a citizen of the United States, and is in compliance with the individual's federal visa requirements.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 05. Department of Labor and Workforce Development › Article 2. Wage Claims. › Sec. 23.05.140. Pay periods; penalty.

(a) An employee and employer may agree in an annual initial contract of employment to monthly pay periods when the employer shall pay the employee for all labor performed or services rendered. Otherwise, the employer shall establish monthly or semi-monthly pay periods, at the election of the employee.
(b) If the employment is terminated, all wages, salaries, or other compensation for labor or services become due immediately and shall be paid within the time required by this subsection at the place where the employee is usually paid or at a location agreed upon by the employer and employee. If the employment is terminated by the employer, regardless of the cause for the termination, payment is due within three working days after the termination. If the employment is terminated by the employee, payment is due at the next regular pay day that is at least three days after the employer received notice of the employee's termination of services.
(c) [Repealed, § 2 ch 19 SLA 1971.]
(d) If an employer violates (b) of this section by failing to pay within the time required by that subsection, the employer may be required to pay the employee a penalty in the amount of the employee's regular wage, salary, or other compensation from the time of demand to the time of payment, or for 90 working days, whichever is the lesser amount.
(e) In an action brought by the department under this section, an employer found liable for failing to pay wages within the time required by (b) of this section shall be required to pay the penalty set out in (d) of this section. The amount of the penalty shall be calculated based on the employee's straight time rate of pay for an eight-hour day.
(f) In an action brought for unpaid overtime under AS 23.10.060 that results in an award of liquidated damages under AS 23.10.110, the provisions of (d) of this section do not apply unless the action was brought by the department under (e) of this section.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 05. Department of Labor and Workforce Development › Article 2. Wage Claims. › Sec. 23.05.160. Notice of wage payments.

An employer shall notify an employee in writing at the time of hiring of the day and place of payment, and the rate of pay, and of any change with respect to these items on the payday before the time of change. An employer may give this notice by posting a statement of the facts, and keeping it posted conspicuously at or near the place of work where the statement can be seen by each employee as the employee comes or goes to the place of work.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 05. Department of Labor and Workforce Development › Article 2. Wage Claims. › Sec. 23.05.170. Wages earned before strike, lockout, or layoff.

An employee who goes on strike, or is temporarily laid off or subjected to an employer lockout during a pay period shall receive the portion of compensation earned on or before the next regular payday established as required in this chapter.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 05. Department of Labor and Workforce Development › Article 2. Wage Claims. › Sec. 23.05.180. Wages in dispute.

(a) If the amount of wages is in dispute, the employer shall give written notice to the employee of the wages, or part of the wages, that the employer concedes to be due, and shall pay that amount, without condition, within the time set by this chapter. The employee retains all remedies that the employee might otherwise be entitled to, including those provided under this chapter or AS 23.10, to any balance claimed.
(b) The acceptance by an employee of a payment under this section does not constitute a release of the balance of the claim, and a release required by an employer as a condition of payment is void.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 05. Department of Labor and Workforce Development › Article 2. Wage Claims. › Sec. 23.05.200. Hearings on wage claims.

(a) The department may hold hearings to investigate a claim for wages. It may cooperate with an employee in the enforcement of a claim against the employer when it considers the claim just and valid.
(b) The authorized representative of the department, in conducting a hearing under this chapter, may administer oaths and examine witnesses under oath, issue subpoenas to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of papers, books, accounts, records, payrolls, and evidentiary documents, and may take depositions and affidavits in a proceeding before the department at the place most convenient to both employer and employee.
(c) If a person fails to comply with a subpoena or a witness refuses to testify to a matter regarding which the witness may be lawfully interrogated, the judge of a competent court may, on application by the department, compel obedience by proceedings for contempt as in the case of disobedience of the requirements of a subpoena issued from the court or a refusal to testify before it.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 05. Department of Labor and Workforce Development › Article 2. Wage Claims. › Sec. 23.05.220. Assignment of liens and claims to department.

(a) The department may take an assignment of (1) a wage claim and an incidental expense account and an advance; (2) a mechanics or other lien of an employee; (3) a claim based on a “stop order” for wages or on a bond for labor; for damages for misrepresentation of a condition of employment; against an employment agency or its bondsman; for unreturned bond money of an employee; for a penalty for nonpayment of wages; for the return of a worker's tools in the illegal possession of another person; and for vacation pay or severance pay.
(b) The department is not bound by any rule requiring the consent of the spouse of a married claimant, the filing of a lien for record before it is assigned, or prohibiting the assignment of a claim for penalty before the claim has been incurred or by any other technical rule with reference to the validity of an assignment.
(c) The department may not accept an assignment of a claim in excess of the amount set out in AS 22.15.040 as the maximum amount, exclusive of costs, interest, and attorney fees, for the jurisdiction of the district court to hear an action for the payment of wages as a small claim.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 05. Department of Labor and Workforce Development › Article 2. Wage Claims. › Sec. 23.05.230. Prosecution of claims.

(a) The department may prosecute an action for the collection of a claim of a person whom it considers entitled to its services, and whom it considers to have a claim that is valid and enforceable.
(b) The department may prosecute an action for the return of a worker's tools that are in the illegal possession of another person.
(c) The department may join several claimants in one lien to the extent allowed by the lien laws and, in case of suit, join them in one cause of action. A bond is not required from the department in connection with an action brought as assignee under this section and AS 23.05.220.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 05. Department of Labor and Workforce Development › Article 2. Wage Claims. › Sec. 23.05.240. Officers to execute process without security; immunity from damages; custody of property.

(a) An officer, requested by the department to serve a summons, writ, complaint, order, garnishment paper, or other process within the officer's jurisdiction, shall do it without requiring the department to furnish security or bond.
(b) When the department requests an officer to seize or levy on property in an attachment proceeding to satisfy a wage claim judgment, the officer shall do so without requiring the department to furnish security or bond.
(c) The officer, in carrying out the provisions of this section, is not responsible in damages for a wrongful seizure made in good faith.
(d) If anyone other than the defendant claims the right of possession or ownership to the seized property, the officer may permit the third party claimant to have the custody of property, pending determination of the court as to who has the better right to possession or ownership.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 05. Department of Labor and Workforce Development › Article 2. Wage Claims. › Sec. 23.05.250. Witness fees of garnishee defendants.

A garnishee defendant, when required to appear in court in an action brought under AS 23.05.230, shall do so without having witness fees paid in advance. But the witness fees are included as part of the taxable costs of the action and are paid to the garnishee defendant after judgment.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 05. Department of Labor and Workforce Development › Article 2. Wage Claims. › Sec. 23.05.260. Disposition of funds recovered.

(a) Out of a recovery in an action under AS 23.05.220 there shall be paid first, court costs advanced by the department which shall be returned to the department's appropriation for this purpose and second, the wage claim involved.
(b) When an action is lost by the department, it shall pay costs out of money appropriated for that purpose.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 05. Department of Labor and Workforce Development › Article 3. Violations and Penalties. › Sec. 23.05.270. Violations by employer.

It is a violation of this chapter for an employer to
(1) hinder or unnecessarily delay the department in the enforcement of this chapter;
(2) refuse to admit an authorized representative of the department to a place of employment;
(3) falsify or fail to keep a record required under provisions of this chapter, or refuse to make the records accessible or to furnish a sworn statement of the records; or
(4) refuse to give information required for the enforcement of this chapter, upon demand, to the department.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 05. Department of Labor and Workforce Development › Article 3. Violations and Penalties. › Sec. 23.05.280. Penalties.

A person who violates a provision of this chapter or a regulation adopted or order made under this chapter upon conviction is punishable for each offense by a fine of not more than $1,000, or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by both. Each day's continuance of a violation is a separate offense.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 05. Department of Labor and Workforce Development › Article 4. Reciprocal Agreements. › Sec. 23.05.320. Reciprocal agreements with other states.

The commissioner may enter into reciprocal agreements with the labor department or corresponding agency of another state, or with the person, board, officer, or commission authorized to act on behalf of that department or agency, for the collection in the other state of claims or judgments for wages based upon claims previously assigned to the commissioner.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 05. Department of Labor and Workforce Development › Article 4. Reciprocal Agreements. › Sec. 23.05.330. Actions in courts of other states.

The commissioner may, to the extent permitted by a reciprocal agreement with an agency of another state, maintain actions in the courts of that state for the collection of claims or judgments for wages, and may assign claims or judgments to the labor department or agency of that state for collection.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 05. Department of Labor and Workforce Development › Article 4. Reciprocal Agreements. › Sec. 23.05.340. Actions in this state for demands arising in other states.

The commissioner may, upon the written request of the labor department or corresponding agency of another state or of a person, board, officer, or commission authorized to act on behalf of that department or agency, maintain actions in the courts of this state upon assigned claims or judgments for wages arising in another state in the same manner and to the same extent that such actions by the commissioner are authorized for claims arising in this state; provided that these actions may be maintained only in the event that the department or agency in the other state provides, by agreement, reciprocal services to the commissioner.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 05. Department of Labor and Workforce Development › Article 5. Labor Relations Agency. › Sec. 23.05.360. Alaska labor relations agency.

(a) There is established within the Department of Labor and Workforce Development the Alaska labor relations agency. The agency is comprised of six members appointed by the governor and confirmed by the legislature. The term of office of a member is three years. Members serve staggered terms in accordance with AS 39.05.055. A vacancy in an unexpired term shall be filled by appointment by the governor for the remainder of the term. The agency must include two members with a background in management, two members with a background in labor, and two members from the general public. All members must have relevant experience in labor relations matters.
(b) Not more than three members of the agency may be members of the same political party.
(c) Members of the agency may be removed by the governor only for cause.
(d) Members of the agency receive no compensation for their services, but are entitled to per diem and travel expenses authorized for boards and commissions.
(e) The governor shall designate a chair from the public members. The chair holds office at the pleasure of the governor.
(f) For purposes of holding hearings, the members of the board sit in panels of three members. The chair designates the panel that will consider a matter. Each panel must include a representative of management, a representative of labor, and a representative from the general public. A member of one panel may serve on the other panel when the chair considers it necessary for the prompt administration of AS 23.40.070 - 23.40.260 (Public Employment Relations Act) or AS 42.40 (Alaska Railroad Corporation Act).
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 05. Department of Labor and Workforce Development › Article 5. Labor Relations Agency. › Sec. 23.05.370. Powers, duties, and functions of Alaska labor relations agency.

(a) The agency shall
(1) establish its own rules of procedure;
(2) exercise general supervision and direct the activities of staff assigned to it by the department;
(3) prepare and submit to the governor an annual report on labor relations problems it has encountered during the previous year, including recommendations for legislative action; the agency shall notify the legislature that the report is available;
(4) serve as the labor relations agency under AS 23.40.070 - 23.40.260 (Public Employment Relations Act) and carry out the functions specified in that Act; and
(5) serve as the railroad labor relations agency for the Alaska Railroad under AS 42.40 (Alaska Railroad Corporation Act) and carry out the functions specified in that Act.
(b) Two members of a panel constitute a quorum for hearing cases. Action taken by a quorum of a panel in a case is considered the action of the full board. Four members constitute a quorum for the transaction of business other than hearing cases.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 05. Department of Labor and Workforce Development › Article 5. Labor Relations Agency. › Sec. 23.05.380. Regulations.

The agency shall adopt regulations under AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act) to carry out labor relations functions under AS 23.05.360 - 23.05.390, AS 23.40.070 - 23.40.260, and AS 42.40.730 - 42.40.890.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 10. Employment Practices and Working Conditions › Article 1. Coercion and Fraud. › Sec. 23.10.015. False representations to procure employees prohibited.

A person doing business in this state may not personally or through an agent induce an individual to change from one place to another in this state, or bring an individual into this state to work as an employee in this state, by means of false or deceptive representations, false advertising, or false pretenses concerning the kind and character of the work to be done, or the amount and character of the compensation to be paid for the work, or the sanitary or other conditions of employment.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 10. Employment Practices and Working Conditions › Article 1. Coercion and Fraud. › Sec. 23.10.020. Penalty for violation of AS 23.10.015.

A person who, personally or as agent or servant for another, violates AS 23.10.015 is punishable by a fine of not more than $2,000, or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by both.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 10. Employment Practices and Working Conditions › Article 1. Coercion and Fraud. › Sec. 23.10.030. Worker's right of action.

A worker induced to accept employment with a person mentioned in AS 23.10.015 by conduct violating that section has a right of action for damages caused by the false or deceptive representations used to induce the worker to change the worker's place of employment, against the person directly or indirectly causing the damages. In addition to the actual damages the worker has sustained, the worker may recover the reasonable attorney fees which the court shall fix, to be taxed as costs.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 10. Employment Practices and Working Conditions › Article 1. Coercion and Fraud. › Sec. 23.10.035. Limit of application.

AS 23.10.015 - 23.10.030 may not be construed to interfere with the right of a person to guard or protect the person's private property, or private interest as provided by law. AS 23.10.015 - 23.10.030 may be construed only to apply when a worker is brought into the state or induced to go from one place to another in the state by a false pretense, false advertising, or deceptive representation, or is brought into the state under arms, or is moved from one place to another in the state under arms.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 10. Employment Practices and Working Conditions › Article 1. Coercion and Fraud. › Sec. 23.10.037. Lie-detector tests.

(a) A person either personally or through an agent or representative may not request or suggest to an employee of the person or to an applicant for employment by the person or require as a condition of employment that the employee or applicant submit to an examination in which a polygraph or other lie-detecting device is used.
(b) The provisions of (a) of this section do not apply to the state or a political subdivision of the state when dealing with police officers in its employ or with persons applying to be employed as police officers. In this subsection, “police officers” includes officers and employees of the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities who are stationed at an international airport and have been designated to have the general police powers authorized under AS 02.15.230(a).
(c) In this section “person” includes the state and a political subdivision of the state.
(d) A person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction is punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000, or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by both.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 10. Employment Practices and Working Conditions › Article 2. Payment of Wages. › Sec. 23.10.040. Payment of wages in state.

(a) Except as otherwise provided by AS 37.25.050, an employer of labor performing services in this state shall pay the wages or other compensation for the services with lawful money of the United States or with negotiable checks, drafts, or orders payable upon presentation without discount by a bank or depository inside the state.
(b) [Repealed, § 2 ch 28 SLA 1971.]
(c) [Repealed, § 2 ch 28 SLA 1971.]
(d) A person who violates a provision of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 10. Employment Practices and Working Conditions › Article 2. Payment of Wages. › Sec. 23.10.043. Deposit of wages.

An employer may not deposit wages due or to become due or an advance on wages to be earned in an account in a bank, savings and loan association, or credit union unless the employee has voluntarily authorized the deposit. All deposits under this section shall be in a bank, savings and loan association, or credit union of the employee's choice.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 10. Employment Practices and Working Conditions › Article 2. Payment of Wages. › Sec. 23.10.045. Payments into benefit fund.

(a) If an employer agrees with an employee to make payments to a fund for the benefit of the employees, including a fund for medical, health, hospital, welfare, and pension benefits or any of them, or has entered into a collective bargaining agreement providing for these payments, the employer may not without just cause fail to make the payments required by the terms of the agreement.
(b) Each violation of this section is a separate offense and a person found guilty of a violation is punishable in accordance with the schedule of punishment set out in AS 23.10.415.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 10. Employment Practices and Working Conditions › Article 2. Payment of Wages. › Sec. 23.10.047. Employee's lien.

(a) If an employer agrees with an employee or group of employees to make payment to a medical, health, hospital, welfare, or pension fund or such other fund for the benefit of the employees, or has entered into a collective bargaining agreement providing for the payments, but fails to make the payments when due, a lien is created in favor of each affected employee on the earnings of the employer and on all property of the employer used in the operation of the employer's business to the extent of the money, plus penalties due to be paid on the employee's behalf to qualify the employee for participation in the fund and for expenses incurred by the employee for which the employee would have been entitled to reimbursement under the fund if the required payments had been made.
(b) The lien claimant, a representative of the claimant, or the trustee of the fund on behalf of the claimant must record a notice of claim within 60 days after the employer's payment is due with the recorder of the recording district in which the employer's place of business is located or in which the claimant resides. The notice contains
(1) the name of employee;
(2) the name of the employer and the name of the person employing the claimant if known;
(3) a statement of the pertinent terms and conditions of the employee benefit plan;
(4) the date when the payments are due and were to have been paid; and
(5) a statement of the demand including the amounts due to the claimant if expenses have been incurred.
(c) The notice of claim of lien is served on the employer in the same manner as a summons and complaint in civil actions or mailed to the employer by registered mail.
(d) The lien created by the recording of the notice of claim of lien is enforced within the same time and in the same manner as a mechanic's lien is foreclosed if the lien is on real property, or as a chattel lien is enforced if the lien is on personal property. The court may allow, as part of the costs of the action, the recording fees for the notice of claim, reasonable attorney's fees, and court costs.
(e) The lien created under (a) of this section is preferred and superior to an encumbrance that attaches after the employer's payments became due, and is also preferred and superior to an encumbrance that has attached previously, but that was not recorded and of which the lien claimant had no notice.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 10. Employment Practices and Working Conditions › Article 3. Alaska Wage and Hour Act. › Sec. 23.10.050. Public policy.

It is the public policy of the state to
(1) establish minimum wage and overtime compensation standards for workers at levels consistent with their health, efficiency, and general well-being, and
(2) safeguard existing minimum wage and overtime compensation standards that are adequate to maintain the health, efficiency, and general well-being of workers against the unfair competition of wage and hour standards that do not provide adequate standards of living.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 10. Employment Practices and Working Conditions › Article 3. Alaska Wage and Hour Act. › Sec. 23.10.065. Minimum wages.

(a) Except as otherwise provided for in law, an employer shall pay to each employee a minimum wage, as established herein, for hours worked in a pay period, whether the work is measured by time, piece, commission or otherwise. An employer may not apply tips or gratuities bestowed upon employees as a credit toward payment of the minimum hourly wage required by this section. Tip credit as defined by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 as amended does not apply to the minimum wage established by this section. Beginning February 24, 2015, the minimum wage shall be $8.75 per hour effective January 1, 2015, $9.75 per hour effective January 1, 2016, and thereafter adjusted annually for inflation. The adjustment shall be calculated each September 30, for the proceeding January-December calendar year, by the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, using 100 percent of the rate of inflation based on the Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers for the Anchorage metropolitan area, compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Department of Labor; the department shall round the adjusted minimum hourly wage up to the nearest one cent; the adjusted minimum hourly wage shall apply to work performed beginning on January 1 through December 31 of the year for which it is effective.
(b) Subject to the limitation under (c) of this section, an employer shall pay to each person employed as a public school bus driver wages at a rate of not less than two times the minimum wage established under (a) of this section, for hours worked in a pay period, whether work is measured by time, commission, or otherwise. An employer may not apply fringe benefits as a credit toward payment of the minimum wage established under this subsection.
(c) Notwithstanding (b) of this section, an employer who contracts with the Department of Education and Early Development, a school district, or a regional educational attendance area to provide school bus transportation services is not required to adjust school bus driver wages under (b) of this section, except when entering into or renewing the contract.
(d) If the minimum wage determined under (a) of this section is less than one dollar over the federal minimum wage, the Alaska minimum wage shall be set at one dollar over the federal minimum wage. This amount shall be adjusted in subsequent years by the method established in (a) of this section.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 10. Employment Practices and Working Conditions › Article 3. Alaska Wage and Hour Act. › Sec. 23.10.070. Exemptions from minimum wage.

To the extent necessary to prevent curtailment of opportunities of employment, the commissioner may by regulations or orders provide for the employment at wages lower than the minimum wage prescribed in AS 23.10.050 - 23.10.150 of
(1) an apprentice at the wages that are approved by the commissioner;
(2) a learner at the wages and subject to the restrictions and for the periods of time that are fixed by the commissioner; or
(3) an individual employed by a nonprofit organization for not more than 12 weeks in a calendar year at a residential summer camp who receives room and board in addition to a weekly wage that is equal to or greater than
(A) 80 percent of the minimum hourly wage established under AS 23.10.065(a), multiplied by 40 hours; or
(B) 50 percent of the minimum wage established under AS 23.10.065(a) multiplied by the total hours worked in the week by the individual.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 10. Employment Practices and Working Conditions › Article 3. Alaska Wage and Hour Act. › Sec. 23.10.071. Wages for work therapy.

(a) For work therapy, as defined in AS 47.37.270, a participant in a residential drug abuse or alcoholism treatment program designed to extend more than 120 days may be paid less than the minimum wage prescribed in AS 23.10.050 - 23.10.150 if the rate has been approved by the commissioner under this section and is in compliance with federal law.
(b) The commissioner shall adopt regulations regarding the payment of wages for work therapy. In adopting the regulations, the commissioner shall consider whether the work performed by the patient
(1) is solely for the benefit of the patient and is that which is ordinarily carried on by patients in a residential treatment program;
(2) would ordinarily be performed by full-time employees of the program;
(3) is work that may produce income to the patient, other than wages;
(4) produces goods or services the proceeds of which will economically or otherwise benefit the owners, operators, or businesses of the rehabilitation program; and
(5) creates an unfair competition with private enterprise because of lower wage standards.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 10. Employment Practices and Working Conditions › Article 3. Alaska Wage and Hour Act. › Sec. 23.10.075. Labor standards and safety division.

There is established in the department the division of labor standards and safety. The director of the division is responsible to the commissioner. The director shall administer AS 18.60.010 - 18.60.105 and AS 23.10.050 - 23.10.150.