Penalty for failure to pay discharged or quitting employee.
1. If an employer fails to pay:
(a) Within 3 days after the wages or compensation of a discharged employee becomes due; or
(b) On the day the wages or compensation is due to an employee who resigns or quits,
Ê the wages or compensation of the employee continues at the same rate from the day he resigned, quit or was discharged until paid or for 30 days, whichever is less.
2. Any employee who secretes or absents himself to avoid payment of his wages or compensation, or refuses to accept them when fully tendered to him, is not entitled to receive the payment thereof for the time he secretes or absents himself to avoid payment.
Last modified: February 25, 2006