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to receive notices electronically in lieu of postal mail.

      (b) The department shall post on its Internet Web site either a list of the employers who have provided the required notice or copies of the actual notices. The list or notices shall remain posted until March 31, 2017.

      (4) The employer calculates and begins making payments to employees as soon as reasonably feasible after it provides the notice referred to in paragraph (3) and completes the payments by no later than December 15, 2016, to each employee to whom the wages are due, or to the Labor Commissioner pursuant to Section 96.7 for any employee whom the employer cannot locate.

      (5) The employer provides each employee receiving a payment with an accompanying accurate statement that contains all of the following information:

      (a) A statement that the payment has been made pursuant to this section.

      (b) A statement as to whether the payment was determined based on the formula in subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1), or on the formula in subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1).

      (c) If the payment is based on the formula in subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1), a statement, spreadsheet, listing, or similar document that states, for each pay period for which compensation was included in the payment, the total hours of rest and recovery periods and other nonproductive time of the employee, the rates of compensation for that time, and the gross wages paid for that time.

      (d) If the payment is based on the formula in subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1), a statement, spreadsheet, listing, or similar document that shows, for each pay period during which the employee had earnings during the period from July 1, 2012, through December 31, 2015, inclusive, the gross wages of the employee and any amounts already paid to the employee, separate from piece-rate compensation, for rest and recovery periods and other nonproductive time.

      (e) The calculations that were made to determine the total payment made.

      (c) An employer who makes a reasonable and good faith effort to make the payments described in paragraph (1) of subdivision (b), and to provide the accurate statement described in paragraph (5) of subdivision (b), to all employees, but who solely through good faith error fails to make a payment to one or more employees as described in paragraph (1) of subdivision (b), or to provide an accurate statement as described in paragraph (5) of subdivision (b), shall not lose the affirmative defense set forth in subdivision (b) as a result of that good faith error if the employer, within 30 days of discovery or notice of the error, makes the payment described in paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) together with accrued interest calculated in accordance with subdivision (c) of Section 98.1 for any delay in payment after December 15, 2016, to the employees and accompanies the payment with an accurate statement as described in paragraph (5) of subdivision (b). The employer shall have the burden of proving that a failure to pay an employee was solely the result of good faith error.

      (d) (1) The employer shall use due diligence, including, but not limited to, the use of people locator services, to locate and pay former employees who no longer work for the employer in the event that former employees have relocated. For payments made to the Labor Commissioner pursuant to paragraph (4) of subdivision (b), the employer shall pay the Labor Commissioner an additional administrative fee equal to one-half of 1 percent of the aggregate payments made, or two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500), whichever is less, for deposit into the Labor Enforcement and Compliance Fund.

      (2) Any payments made to the Labor Commissioner pursuant to paragraph (4) of subdivision (b) shall be accompanied by a statement, in both printed and electronic format, that identifies each employee for whom payment is made, the amount payable to that employee, and if available, the employee’s last known address and social security number.

      (3) The employer shall preserve all records of hours worked, calculations of hours worked, and records of payments made to employees and the Labor Commissioner pursuant to subdivision (b) and this subdivision, until December 16, 2020, and furnish the records related to an employee on request by the employee.

      (e) Beginning on January 1, 2016, and ending on July 1, 2016, if the employer has not provided the notice required by paragraph (3) of subdivision (b), or ending on December 15, 2016, if the employer has provided the notice required by paragraph (3) of subdivision (b), the statute of limitations shall be tolled for that period of time for any claims based on failure to fully compensate employees compensated on a piece-rate basis for rest and recovery periods and other nonproductive time prior to January 1, 2016.

      (f) Any notice to the Labor and Workforce Development Agency on or before December 31, 2015, pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 2699.3, alleging violations based upon failure to properly compensate employees for rest and recovery periods, is void as to those alleged violations. Beginning January 1, 2016, and subject to the tolling provisions of subdivision (e), an aggrieved employee or representative shall give written notice by certified mail to both the Labor and Workforce Development Agency and the employer of any violations based on failure to compensate employees fully for rest and recovery periods and other nonproductive time.

      (g) The provisions in subdivisions (b), (c), (d), (e), and (f) shall not apply to any of the following:

      (1) Damages and penalties previously awarded in an order or judgment that was final and not subject to further appeal as of January 1, 2016.

      (2) Claims based on the failure to provide paid rest or recovery periods or pay for other nonproductive time for which all of the following are true:

      (a) The claim was asserted in a court pleading filed prior to March 1, 2014, or was asserted in an amendment to a claim that relates back to a court pleading filed prior to March 1, 2014, and the amendment or permission for amendment was filed prior to July 1, 2015.

      (b) The claim was asserted against a defendant named with specificity and joined as a defendant, other than as an unnamed (DOE) defendant pursuant to Section 474 of the Code of Civil Procedure, in the pleading referred to in subparagraph (A), or another pleading or amendment filed in the same action prior to January 1, 2015.

      (3) Claims that employees were not advised of their right to take rest or recovery breaks, that rest and recovery breaks were not made available, or that employees were discouraged or otherwise prevented from taking such breaks.

      (4) Claims for unpaid wages, damages, and penalties that accrue after January 1, 2016.

      (5) Claims for paid rest or recovery periods or pay for other nonproductive time that were made in any case filed prior to April 1, 2015, when the case contained by that date an allegation that the employer has intentionally stolen, diminished, or otherwise deprived employees of wages through the use of fictitious worker names or names of workers that were not actually working.

      (6) An employer that is a new motor vehicle dealer, as defined by Section 426 of the Vehicle Code.

      (h) Amendment to assert the affirmative defense provided in subdivision (b) in actions filed on or after March 1, 2014, unless final and not subject to further appeal as of January 1, 2016, shall be permitted.

      (i) Nothing in this section shall limit or bar any action or proceeding by the Labor Commissioner or any private party for any failure to provide a rest and recovery period in accordance with any provision of this code, any order of the Industrial Welfare Commission, or any regulation adopted by the Department of Industrial Relations or any of its divisions, other than actions or proceedings based solely on the employer’s failure to timely pay the compensation due for rest and recovery periods.

      (j) Nothing in this section precludes a judge from awarding statutory, contractual, or common fund attorney’s fees or costs in connection with an action filed before October 1, 2015.

      (k) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2021, and as of that date is repealed.

      (Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 754, Sec. 4. Effective January 1, 2016. Repealed as of January 1, 2021, by its own provisions. See later operative version added by Sec. 5 of Stats. 2015, Ch. 754.)

      226.2. This section shall apply for employees who are compensated on a piece-rate basis for any work performed during a pay period. This section

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