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BGS warns S.125 payroll-reporting amendment would strain contractors, state agencies
Summary
Wanda Manoli, commissioner of Buildings and General Services, told the House General & Housing Committee on April 23 that changes in S.125 to Title 29 §161 requiring weekly payroll submissions and retention would broaden the law's reach, raise privacy and staffing concerns, and impose burdens on small contractors and multiple state agencies.
Wanda Manoli, commissioner of the Department of Buildings and General Services, told the House General & Housing Committee on April 23 that an amendment to S.125 requiring employers and subcontractors on certain state construction projects to submit weekly payroll records would create significant administrative, privacy and cost burdens for both businesses and state agencies.
The proposed language would add a new subsection to Title 29, Section 161 that asks contractors and subcontractors on covered projects to submit payroll records weekly by mail or email, accompany them with a signed accuracy statement, preserve those records for three years after project completion, and make them available for inspection by the Department of Labor. Manoli said the change would apply not only to projects directly managed by Buildings and General Services (BGS) but to any entity receiving funds through the Capital Construction Act or the capital cash fund, including the Agency of Natural Resources,…
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