§ 20½-6. Penalty for filing a frivolous complaint.

If a Hearing Officer determines that any nonpayment of earned wages complaint submitted to the County was without basis in law or fact, the Hearing Officer shall issue an order requiring the applicable complainant (the employee or the entity filing the complaint on behalf of its member) to reimburse, within thirty (30) days after the date of the order: (1) the County for all administrative costs incurred by the County in connection with such complaint; and (2) each respondent employer named in the complaint for all reasonable costs and attorney's fees incurred by the employer in connection with the complaint. If such reimbursement is not timely made, the employer, or the County with regard to any costs incurred by the County, may file an appropriate action in a court of competent jurisdiction to obtain such reimbursement.

(Ord. No. 2018-36 , § 1, 9-13-18)