Kokua Line

By Hildegaard Verploegen

Friday, August 16, 1996


Pay stubs not required
to show hourly wage

QUESTION: Aren't employers required to tell workers the amount of their hourly pay?

My son started a new job recently with a private company and received his first pay check. The pay stub shows his gross salary and the amounts taken out. It doesn't show the number of hours he worked or the rate of pay per hour. I tried to average it out from the number of hours he told me he worked and it comes out to about $4 an hour.

ANSWER: No. State law requires the pay stub to show the gross wages, itemized deductions, the net pay, the date of the payment, and the pay period covered, said Pat Stanley, spokesman for the state Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.

Did your son agree to any special conditions on the number of hours at the time he was hired?

For more detailed information, call 586-8777, the Wage and Hour Section of the state Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.



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