CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The West Virginia Legislature will consider a proposal from Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin to give businesses more time to pay laid-off or fired employees.
The bill introduced Friday would give employers until the next scheduled payday to pay discharged employees. Currently employers must pay final wages within 72 hours of firing or laying off an employee. If they fail to pay on time they face penalties of three times the amount owed. Those penalties would not change.
In his State of the State address last week Tomblin said that forcing employers to re-run payroll every time an employee is discharged is a big hassle for small businesses.
The proposal was championed by the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce in January.
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