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Committee votes to extend time for wage investigations to allow administrative audits and employer remediation
Summary
Senate Bill 279 authorizes the Labor Department to toll the two-year limitation while investigators audit payrolls and negotiate restitution, a change the committee approved to assist enforcement and protect law-abiding employers.
The Senate Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee approved Senate Bill 279, a Department of Labor and Licensing-sponsored measure that clarifies how the department conducts minimum-wage investigations and preserves the two-year recovery period while the agency audits payroll records and negotiates restitution with employers.
Dan Parker, chief legal counsel for the Department of Labor and Licensing, said the department already enforces the Arkansas Minimum Wage Act and that the bill would…
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