O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 34-4-5 (2019)

Employer’s records of hours worked by and wages paid to employees

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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Every employer subject to this chapter or any regulation pursuant thereto shall maintain records showing the hours worked by each employee and the wages paid to him and shall furnish to the Commissioner upon demand a sworn statement of the hours worked and wages paid to each person in his or its employment covered by this chapter. The records covering such hours and payments shall be open to inspection by the Commissioner, his deputy, or any authorized agent of the department at any reasonable time. Each employer subject to this chapter shall post copies of any regulation or order issued pursuant to its provisions in a conspicuous place in an area frequented by his employees.

History

(Ga. L. 1970, p. 153, § 4.)

Annotations

Cross references. - Duty of employers to keep records generally, § 34-2-11. OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Commissioner of Labor has responsibility, authority, and is empowered to enforce provisions of minimum

wage law (see now O.C.G.A. Ch. 4, T. 34). 1970 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 70-184.

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 48B Am. Jur. 2d, Labor and Labor Relations, § 3168 et seq. C.J.S. - 51A C.J.S., Labor Relations,

§§ 833, 834. 51B C.J.S., Labor Relations, § 1376 et seq.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 1 case, 2015–2015 · leading case: Anderson v. S. Home Care Servs.., Inc., 780 S.E.2d 339 (Ga. 2015).

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Anderson v. S. Home Care Servs.., Inc., 780 S.E.2d 339 (Ga. 2015). · cites it 2× “It does require that each employer “maintain records showing the hours worked by each employee and the wages paid to him,” OCGA § 34-4-5, but this provision does not provide employees a cause of action if employers fail to comply.”

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