Required Written Statement of Hours Worked

rt Three of a Four-Part Series) 

By Kristina Keech Spitler, Esq. and Brendan F. Cassidy, Esq.

While businesses have been focused on dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic, working remotely, educating kids, and figuring out how to return to work safely, new laws will go into effect starting on July 1, 2020, that you need to know about.  These laws will significantly impact Virginia employers.

Due to the enactment of these new laws in Virginia, businesses will need to understand what the laws require, update their pay statements, and educate and train their supervisors/managers accordingly.

A new law effective January 1, 2020, requires employers to provide employees with a written statement – by a paystub or online accounting – showing the employer’s name and address and the number of hours the employee worked during the pay period. An amendment to this new law, effective March 10, 2020, clarifies that employers must only provide this written statement to employees paid on the basis of:

• (i) the number of hours worked or
• (ii) a salary less than the DOL’s minimum salary threshold.

The amendment also clarifies that an employer must provide applicable employees with their rate of pay, gross wages earned during the pay period, the amount and purpose of any deductions therefrom, and sufficient information to enable the employee to determine how the gross and net pay were calculated.

Employers should review pay statements it provides employees to ensure compliance with this enacted law.

For further information or questions about these new laws, or for any questions regarding employment laws applicable to Virginia employers, please contact Ms. Spitler or Mr. Cassidy at Vanderpool, Frostick & Nishanian.  The attorneys in the employment law department of VFN are available to help you revise your employee handbook and policies as well as provide training so that your organization complies with this new and other applicable law.  Alternatively, if your organization does not have an employee handbook, our firm can draft a handbook tailored to meet your business’s needs.

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