Kansas · statute · Kan. Stat. Ann. ch. 44 · 487 active provisions
Any employer of labor in this state, after having discharged any person from his service, shall not prevent or attempt to prevent by word, sign or writing of any kind whatsoever any such discharged employee from obtaining employment from any other person, company or corporation, except by furnishing in writing, on requ…
Any employer of labor, his agent or employee, who shall violate the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall upon conviction be fined for each offense the sum of one hundred dollars and thirty days' imprisonment in the county jail.
Any person, firm or corporation found guilty of the violation of this act, shall be liable to the party injured to an amount equal to three times the sum he may be injured, and such employers of labor shall also be liable for a reasonable attorney fee, which shall be taxed as part of the costs in the case.
(a) Unless otherwise provided by law, an employer, or an employer's designee, who discloses information about a current or former employee to a prospective employer of the employee shall be qualifiedly immune from civil liability. (b) Unless otherwise provided by law, an employer who discloses information about a curre…
As used in this act, the following words shall have the meaning respectively ascribed to them herein: (a) "Migrant worker" means any person who is a nonresident of Kansas and who is employed temporarily in agriculturally-related work involving seasonal labor requiring his migration from one area to another in order to…
Any employer employing migrant workers, or any employee of an employer responsible for the payment of wages to migrant workers, shall make such payments directly to the individual worker and no such payment shall be made to a crew chief.
Any crew chief who brings any migrant worker into the state of Kansas or who is responsible for any migrant worker within the state of Kansas shall register with a local Kansas state employment service office. Upon registering, such crew chief shall furnish to such office a list of names and social security numbers of…
Any information filed with the local Kansas state employment service office pursuant to the provisions of K.S.A. 44-127 shall be made available to the public upon request.
Any violation of this act shall be a class C misdemeanor. Any crew chief found to be in violation of this act shall cease to operate as a crew chief in this state for a period of two (2) years.
(a) Any provision in an employment agreement which provides that an employee shall assign or offer to assign any of the employee's rights in an invention to the employer shall not apply to an invention for which no equipment, supplies, facilities or trade secret information of the employer was used and which was develo…
(a) No employer may discharge any employee by reason of the fact that the employee performs duties as a volunteer firefighter, volunteer certified emergency medical service provider, as defined in K.S.A. 65-6112, and amendments thereto, volunteer reserve law enforcement officer or volunteer part-time law enforcement of…
(a) The deployment, implementation or use of a motor carrier safety improvement by, or as required by, a motor carrier or such motor carrier's related entity, including by contract, shall not, in whole or in part, affect, impact or change the worker status of a driver. (b) For purposes of this section: (1) "Motor carri…
That whenever a receiver shall be appointed of the estate of any corporation, copartnership, or individual, under the laws of this state, or whenever any corporation, copartnership or individual shall make a general assignment for the benefit of the creditors of such corporation, copartnership, or individual, the wages…
As used in this act: (a) "Employer" means any individual, partnership, association, joint stock company, trust, corporation, limited liability company or other organization, the administrator or executor of the estate of a deceased individual, or the receiver, trustee, or successor of any of the same, the state of Kans…
(a) Every employer shall pay all wages due to the employees of the employer at least once during each calendar month, on regular paydays designated in advance by the employer. (b) The employer may designate the method by which employees receive wages, provided all wages shall be paid by one or more of the following met…
(a) Whenever an employer discharges an employee or whenever an employee quits or resigns, the employer shall pay the employee's earned wages not later than the next regular payday upon which he or she would have been paid if still employed as provided under K.S.A. 44-314 either through the regular pay channels or by ma…
(a) In case of a dispute over the amount of wages due, the employer shall pay, without conditions and no later than the regular payday next following the concession, all wages, or parts thereof, conceded by him to be due, leaving to the employee all remedies he might otherwise be entitled to, including those provided u…
Whenever any person responsible pursuant to a contract for the performance of any work has subcontracted the performance of all or any part of such work, such responsible person shall be civilly liable to the employees of the subcontractor for wages due on account of the performance of work covered by the contract, but…
In the absence of actual notice of probate proceedings, the employer may pay, upon proper demand, wages due a deceased employee. Any such payment or payments shall be in the following order of preference: Spouse, children eighteen (18) years of age and over in equal shares, father, mother, sisters and brothers in equal…
(a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c), no employer may withhold, deduct or divert any portion of an employee's wages unless: (1) The employer is required or empowered to do so by state or federal law; (2) the deductions are for medical, surgical or hospital care or service, without financial benefit to the…
(a) Any employer which provides automatic enrollment in an employee retirement plan described in sections 401(k) or 403(b) of the internal revenue code, or a governmental deferred compensation plan described in section 457 of the internal revenue code, or a payroll deduction IRA plan described in section 408 or 408A of…
Each employer shall: (a) Upon the request of the employee, notify such employee in writing or as required by a collective bargaining agreement, of the rate of pay and of the day and place of payment. (b) Upon the request of the employee, notify such employee in writing or through a posted notice maintained in a place a…
Except as provided in K.S.A. 44-324, no provision of, or any right created under this act may in any way be contravened, set aside or waived.
(a) The secretary shall enforce and administer the provisions of this act and the secretary or authorized representatives of the secretary are empowered to hold hearings and otherwise to investigate violations or alleged violations of this act. (b) The secretary or authorized representatives of the secretary are empowe…
(a) Whenever a claim for unpaid wages under K.S.A. 44-313 through 44-326, and amendments thereto, is filed with the secretary of labor, the secretary or the secretary's authorized representative shall investigate the claim as provided in K.S.A. 44-322, and amendments thereto, to determine if a dispute exists between th…