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Utah's wage payment law would be reorganized and clarified under this bill without changing most of the underlying rules. The bill updates the definition of "wages" to mean any compensation an employer owes an employee regardless of how it's calculated, and it clarifies that officers, managers, general partners, and similar business roles count as "employers" under the law. It restates existing requirements that employers must tell new hires their payday, pay location, and pay rate, notify them before any changes to those terms, and allows employers to meet this requirement by posting the information conspicuously at the workplace. Finally, the bill reorganizes, without substantively changing, the list of actions that count as a criminal misdemeanor, including refusing to pay owed wages, falsifying wage amounts to shortchange or delay payment to an employee, or hiring a new employee without disclosing an existing unpaid wage claim or judgment against the employer.