Employer's use of payroll cards to pay workers under investigation by New York State Attorney General Schneierman
Marnie E. Smith, Esq., an attorney with Harris Beach's Labor and Employment Law Practice Group, has posted an item on the NYMUNIBLOG reviewing Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman’s investigation of the use of "payroll cards” by employers.
Ms. Smith observes that “Payroll cards are used as an alternative to the traditional written paycheck or direct deposit” whereby the employee’s wages “are loaded onto a debit card, which avoids having to cash a paycheck and does not require the employee to have a bank account.”