§ 196-d. Gratuities. No employer or his agent or an officer or agent of any corporation, or any other person shall demand or accept, directly or indirectly, any part of the gratuities, received by an employee, or retain any part of a gratuity or of any charge purported to be a gratuity for an employee. […]
§ 197. Civil penalty. Any employer who fails to pay the wages of his employees or shall differentiate in rate of pay because of protected class status, as provided in this article, shall forfeit to the people of the state the sum of five hundred dollars for each such failure, to be recovered by the […]
§ 198. Costs, remedies. 1. In any action instituted upon a wage claim by an employee or the commissioner in which the employee prevails, the court may allow such employee in addition to ordinary costs, a reasonable sum, not exceeding fifty dollars for expenses which may be taxed as costs. No assignee of a wage […]
§ 198-a. Criminal penalties. 1. Every employer who does not pay the wages of all of his employees in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, and the officers and agents of any corporation, partnership, or limited liability company who knowingly permit the corporation, partnership, or limited liability company to violate this chapter by failing […]
§ 198-b. “Kick-back” of wages prohibited. 1. As used in this section, the term “person” shall include any firm, partnership, association, corporation or group of persons. 2. Whenever any employee who is engaged to perform labor shall be promised an agreed rate of wages for his or her services, be such promise in writing or […]
§ 198-c. Benefits or wage supplements. 1. In addition to any other penalty or punishment otherwise prescribed by law, any employer who is party to an agreement to pay or provide benefits or wage supplements to employees or to a third party or fund for the benefit of employees and who fails, neglects or refuses […]
§ 198-d. Posting regulations on illegal wage deductions. Every employer engaged in the sale or service of food or beverages shall post in his establishment, in a place accessible to his employees and in a visually conspicuous manner, a copy of sections one hundred ninety-three and one hundred ninety-six-d of this chapter and any regulations […]
§ 198-e. Construction industry wage theft. 1. A contractor making or taking a construction contract shall be liable for any debt resulting from an action under section one hundred ninety-eight of this article, owed to an employee or third party on the employee’s behalf, incurred by a subcontractor at any tier acting under, by, or […]
§ 199. Rules and regulations. The commissioner may issue such rules and regulations as he determines necessary for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this article.
§ 199-a. Notification of process. 1. Each employee who files a complaint regarding a violation of a provision of this article (payment of wages), article nineteen (minimum wage act), or article nineteen-A (minimum wage standards and protective labor practices for farm workers), section one hundred sixty-one, section one hundred sixty-two, section two hundred twelve-a, section […]
