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It's all in the card

For some employees, paper is giving way to plastic on payday

By Diane E. Lewis
Globe Staff / February 15, 2004

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Paper or plastic? Workers will hear that question more often as a small but growing number of US companies shift from paper checks to plastic cards that act, look, and feel like debit cards. Called payroll access or pay cards, they allow employees without direct deposit access to their wages on payday without having to race to a bank or ... (Full Article: 1376 Words)

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