As we previously noted, the Pennsylvania General Assembly passed a law in November that amends the Pennsylvania Banking Code to permit the use of payroll debit cards, with certain conditions.  The law brought welcome clarity to this murky issue by authorizing formally the payment of employee wages via debit card and setting forth the requirements that need to be met to do so.  We discussed these requirements in our prior post on this topic.

This law is set to take effect on May 4.  Employers who wish to consider the payroll debit card option for paying employees (or who already are doing so) should review the specifics of the law to ensure they are in compliance when this law takes effect.