California’s new Wage Theft Prevention Act (WTPA), California Labor Code § 2810.5, which went into effect on January 1, 2012, continues to generate questions, despite the publication of multiple versions of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) regarding employer requirements. The WTPA requires employers to provide all new nonexempt hires with written notice of specific information.

The WTPA required California’s Labor Commissioner to prepare a template of the written notice, which the Division of Labor Standards and Enforcement (DLSE) issued on December 29, 2011, just before the law went into effect.

The DLSE’s notice template generated numerous questions from employers as to practical implementation as well as the broad scope of the template, which included information not required by the law itself. The DLSE published FAQs on December 30, 2011, which the DLSE revised on January 3 and then again on January 23. The revised FAQs address some of the many inquiries that the DLSE has received in connection with its original FAQs and wage notice template.

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