Pennsylvania Act 1971-43 — CONCERNING RAILROAD EMPLOYEE WAGES

Act text

AN ACT

Regulating the time of payment of wages and earnings of railroad employes.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. Unless otherwise stipulated in the contract of hiring or in the applicable labor agreement, every common carrier by railroad or corporation or joint stock association, operating a steam, electric, or diesel surface railroad, or engaged in the sleeping car business, or carrying on the business thereof by lease or otherwise, shall pay once each week to each employe, the wages earned for the seven day period ending not more than fourteen days prior to such payment. Wages as the term is herein used shall be limited to those earnings derived from basic pro rata rates of pay pursuant to a labor agreement, and shall not include incentives, bonuses, and other similar types of fringe payments.

Section 1.1. The payments referred to in section 1 shall, at the written request of and notification of address by the individual employe involved, be mailed by use of the United States Postal Service to that employe.

(1.1 added July 9, 1984, P.L.673, No.143)

Section 2. The last payment of wages under existing law shall be made on or before January 14, 1972, and the first payment of wages under section 1 of this act shall be made on or before January 21, 1972.

Section 2.1. (a) This act shall be administered and enforced by the Department of Labor and Industry.

(b) The Department of Labor and Industry may make such rules and regulations as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this act.

(2.1 added July 14, 1977, P.L.81, No.29)

Section 2.2. Any person who the Secretary of Labor and Industry determines after a hearing to be in violation of this act shall pay to the Commonwealth a civil penalty in an amount determined by the secretary not exceeding $50 per employe for each week such employe is not paid in accordance with this act.

(2.2 added July 14, 1977, P.L.81, No.29)

Section 3. The act of April 24, 1913 (P.L.114), entitled "An act regulating the time of payment of wages and earnings, and providing a penalty for violation hereof," and its amendments are repealed in so far as inconsistent herewith.

Section 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

Compiler's Note: Section 7 of Act 46 of 2006 provided that the amendment of paragraph (7) shall apply to an agricultural conservation easement jointly recorded with a recorder of deeds of this Commonwealth by an "eligible nonprofit entity" as defined in section 3 of this act and a county or with the Commonwealth prior to or on May 15, 2006.