I wanted to share a recent blog posted on our sister blog – Employer Law Report– that may be of interest to readers of this blog with multi-state operations. As Leigh Anne Benedic details in her blog, several states and local governments have recently considered or enacted “wage theft” legislation to include the criminal and increased civil penalties and fines for employers who underpay their workers. California’s provisions are similar to the provisions that took effect in New York earlier this year. The inclusion of notice requirements in California and New York create additional consequences for the unwary employer.