Recently enacted SB 220 allows employers to pay employee wages weekly or biweekly without approval by the Connecticut Department of Labor. Prior to this, employers were required to request permission to pay wages less frequently than weekly. (Public Act 16-169)

Employers wishing instead to pay on semimonthly or monthly basis must request permission from the Department by filing an electronic request here; provided, however, that each employee is paid wages in full at least once each calendar month.

The Department's website specifies that employers should give employees a 30-day notice of any change in wage payment frequency.

The law continues to require that each employee be paid wages in full at least once in each calendar month on a regularly established schedule.

Employers may pay wages by payroll debit card with employee's consent

As we reported in ax Alert 2016-1109, effective October 1, 2016, other recently enacted legislation (SB 211) gives employers the option to pay employee wages by payroll debit card, provided employees give their consent. Prior to the law change, debit cards were not allowed as a wage payment method. (Public Act 16-125, signed by the governor on June 7, 2016.)

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