Wage and Hour, State Labor Laws, Rhode Island

Rhode Island’s New Workplace Laws: Menopause Protections, “Captive Audience” Meeting Ban, Minimum Wage Hikes, and More

Fisher Phillips on 8/4/2025

Rhode Island employers must keep up with new workplace laws enacted this year, including some that have already taken effect. The state not only joined a growing number of states that prohibit so-called “captive audience”...more

Rhode Island Employers Take Note – New Penalties for Wage & Hour Violations Begin January 1, 2024

Bowditch & Dewey on 10/4/2023

As of January 1, 2024, a new amendment to the Rhode Island Payment of Wages Act, R.I. Gen. Laws § 28-14-1, et seq. (the “Wage Act”) will impose criminal liability for certain wage and hour violations by Rhode Island...more

Rhode Island’s Amended Payment of Wages Act Now Imposes Felony Penalties on Employers

Littler on 9/25/2023

Effective January 1, 2024, the Rhode Island Payment of Wages Act, R.I. Gen. Laws § 28-14-1, et seq. (“Wage Act”) will make a “knowing[] and willful[]” wage and hour violation punishable as a criminal felony. Should an...more

Rhode Island Legislative Update

Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP on 7/21/2023

It is that time of year again, when the Rhode Island legislature ends its session and passes a number of laws that affect businesses with Rhode Island based employees. 2023 was no different. Following is a short summary of...more

Rhode Island’s 2023 Legislative Session Ends with the Passage and Defeat of Significant Employment Proposals

Epstein Becker & Green on 7/18/2023

Summer in the Ocean State brings with it familiar novelties: the beach, clam cakes, and the end of the General Assembly’s legislative session. In this Insight, we summarize three employment-related bills that Rhode Island...more

RIDLT Proposes Regulations and Issues Compliance Guidance for the New Pay Equity Law

Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP on 6/6/2022

The Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training’s (“RIDLT”) much anticipated Proposed Regulations (“Regulations”) to the Rhode Island Pay Equity Law (the “Act”) have arrived. As we previously discussed, on July 6, 2021,...more