2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 31-76a. Investigations on complaint of nonpayment of wages and certain misrepresentations re employees.

      Sec. 31-76a. Investigations on complaint of nonpayment of wages and certain misrepresentations re employees. (a) On receipt of a complaint for nonpayment of wages or a violation of the provisions of subsection (g) of section 31-288, the Labor Commissioner, the director of minimum wage and wage enforcement agents of the Labor Department shall have power to enter, during usual business hours, the place of business or employment of any employer to determine compliance with the wage payment laws or subsection (g) of section 31-288, and for such purpose may examine payroll and other records and interview employees, call hearings, administer oaths, take testimony under oath and take depositions in the manner provided by sections 52-148a to 52-148e, inclusive.

      (b) The commissioner or the director, for such purpose, may issue subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses and the production of books and records. Any employer or any officer or agent of any employer, corporation, firm or partnership who wilfully fails to furnish time and wage records as required by law to the commissioner, the director of minimum wage or any wage enforcement agent upon request, or who refuses to admit the commissioner, the director or such agent to the place of employment of such employer, corporation, firm or partnership, or who hinders or delays the commissioner, the director or such agent in the performance of the commissioner's, the director's or such agent's duties in the enforcement of this section shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars. Each day of such failure to furnish the time and wage records to the commissioner, the director or such agent shall constitute a separate offense, and each day of refusal to admit, of hindering or of delaying the commissioner, the director or such agent shall constitute a separate offense.

      (1959, P.A. 369; P.A. 77-604, S. 31, 84; P.A. 00-58, S. 2.)

      History: P.A. 77-604 substituted reference to Secs. 52-148a to 52-148e for reference to Sec. 52-148; P.A. 00-58 divided existing provisions into Subsecs. (a) and (b), added references to Sec. 31-288(g) in Subsec. (a) and made technical changes in Subsec. (b).