Timely Pay

From the Bruin: ...The new bill, Senate Bill 698, requires the UC to pay employees no later than 5 days after the end of the month, or else face fines or other legal fees. Last year’s error-plagued rollout of the UC’s payroll system, University of California Payroll, Academic Personnel, Timekeeping and Human Resources, or UCPath, caused paychecks to arrive late, smaller than expected or not at all, according to the bill. Many UC employees who lived paycheck to paycheck faced financial difficulties and were unable to pay rent or health insurance.

Student employees affected by issues with UCPath staged protests last December to voice their frustrations to UCLA after payment errors left them without pay for months.

The protesters felt their complaints went unheard and unresolved, though the UC assured them at a town hall that those affected were in the slim minority of employees, and it was also taking proactive steps to curb payroll problems in the future.

California law recognizes late paychecks as a form of wage theft, said the bill’s author, California state Sen. Connie Leyva, in a press release...

Full story at http://dailybruin.com/2019/10/25/uc-no-longer-exempt-from-wage-theft-code-bringing-further-accountability-to-process/

Deuteronomy 24:15

At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.