Payroll Kansas Part 2

Kansas

The minimum wage in Kansas is $2.65 per hour.

The general provision in Kansas concerning paying overtime in a non-FLSA covered employer is one and one half times regular rate after 46-hour week.

Kansas State new hire reporting requirements are that every employer must report every new hire and rehire. The employer must report the federally required elements of:

Employee's name
Employee's address
Employee's social security number
Employer's name
Employers address
Employer's Federal Employer Identification Number (EIN)

This information must be reported within 20 days of the hiring or rehiring. The information can be sent as a W4 or equivalent by mail, fax or electronically. There is no penalty for a late report in Kansas.

The Kansas new hire-reporting agency can be reached at 888-219-7801 or 913-296-1716 or on the web at http://www.dol.ks.gov/ui/html/newhires_BUS.html.

Kansas does not allow compulsory direct deposit

Kansas requires the following information on an employee's pay stub:

itemized deductions (if requested)

Kansas requires that employee be paid no less often than monthly.

Kansas requires that the lag time between the end of the pay period and the payment of wages to the employee not exceed fifteen days.

Kansas payroll law requires that involuntarily terminated employees must be paid their final pay by their next regular payday; by mail on request and that voluntarily terminated employees must be paid their final pay by the next regular payday; by mail on request.

Deceased employee's wages must be paid when normally due to the surviving spouse, children 18 or over, parents, siblings, or funeral director (in that order) on demand.

Escheat laws in Kansas require that unclaimed wages be paid over to the state after one year.

The employer is further required in Kansas to keep a record of the wages abandoned and turned over to the state for a period of 10 years.

Kansas's payroll law mandates no more than 40% of minimum wage may be used as a tip credit.

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