Compliance assistance - violations - enforcement

(1) The director of the division of labor standards and statistics shall provide compliance assistance to direct care employers as warranted and shall investigate leads concerning possible violations of the training and notice requirements set forth in this article 7.5 and other alleged labor violations against direct care workers that, in the director's good faith discretion and judgment, warrant investigation. (2) The director of the division of labor standards and statistics shall enforce compliance and shall impose a fine on a direct care employer that violates this article 7.5 of one hundred dollars for each direct care worker affected by each violation. A direct care employer that demonstrates a good faith effort to comply with this article 7.5 is not subject to a fine for the employer's first violation for a worker covered by the violation. The director shall double the amount of the fine for each violation after a prior violation of the same or similar type within five years. The division shall transmit the money collected from fines imposed pursuant to this subsection (2) to the state treasurer, who shall credit the money to the wage theft enforcement fund created in section 8-4-113 (3).