Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has allowed a bill requiring companies to pay hefty penalties for failing to pay full wages or overtime to become law. Patrick and Democratic lawmakers were at odds over the bill. Patrict rejected the bill once, but after lawmakers shipped it back to Patrick without changes, he decided to allow it to become law without his signature.
April 15, 2008 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on National Law Journal
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has allowed a bill requiring companies to pay hefty penalties for failing to pay full wages or overtime to become law.
Patrick and Democratic lawmakers were at odds over the bill, which was designed to toughen a 1993 law intended to require companies found not to have paid wages or overtime to pay workers three times the amount owed.
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