Wage and Hour Laws

In 2014, Hawaii’s legislature sanctioned the use of two widely used methods for the payment of employee wages – direct deposit and pay cards. Approximately eighty-five per cent of all employees in Hawaii are paid by direct deposit and approximately fourteen thousand employees in Hawaii receive their wages by pay cards. Given their widespread use, Read more

For the first time in seven years, the minimum wage rate in the state of Massachusetts increased from $8.00 per hour to $9.00 per hour on January 1, 2015. The minimum wage rate increase is the first in a series of three annual increases required by a bill signed in 2014 by Governor Deval Patrick: Read more