60-11-2. Requiring employee to pay cost of medical examination prohibited--Misdemeanor--Employer and employee defined.
It is a Class 2 misdemeanor for any employer to require any employee to pay the cost of a medical examination or the cost of furnishing any records required by the employer as a condition of continued employment.
The term, employer, as used in this section means an individual, a partnership, an association, a corporation, a legal representative, trustee, receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, and any common carrier by rail, motor, water, air or express company doing business in or operating within the state.
The term, employee, means any person who may be permitted, required, or directed by any employer, in consideration of direct or indirect gain or profit, to engage in any employment.
Source: SL 1949, ch 78, §§1 to 4; SDC Supp 1960, §§17.0108, 17.9913; SL 1978, ch 359, §2; SL 2008, ch 276, §78.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 60 - Labor and Employment
Chapter 11 - Wages, Hours And Conditions Of Employment
Section 60-11-1 - Manufacturing or mechanical occupations--Hours of labor.
Section 60-11-3 - Minimum wage--Misdemeanor--Certain employees excluded.
Section 60-11-3.2 - Annual minimum wage adjustment.
Section 60-11-4 - Minimum wage--Agreement to work for less ineffective.
Section 60-11-4.1 - Opportunity wage allowed.
Section 60-11-5 - Exemptions from minimum wage provisions.
Section 60-11-7 - Liability of employer for double damages for breach of obligation to pay wages.
Section 60-11-8 - Employers subject to wage payment requirements.
Section 60-11-9 - Monthly wage payments required--Agreed pay day--Form of payment.
Section 60-11-14 - Provisions applicable to cash wages only.
Section 60-11-15 - Employer's intentional refusal to pay wages--Misdemeanor.
Section 60-11-16 - Fraudulent claim by employee--Misdemeanor.
Section 60-11-17.1 - Reprisals because of wage complaints or proceedings prohibited.
Section 60-11-20 - Promulgation of rules.
Section 60-11-21 - Reciprocal agreements with other states for enforcement of wage claims.
Section 60-11-24 - Action removed by defendant--Plaintiff's costs and attorney fees.