False representations or pretenses concerning employer’s ability to pay wages: Penalty. Any person, persons, partnership, association, company or corporation, or his or its officers, directors or agents, who or which shall employ for wages any person or persons in any occupation, and who or which at the time of employing such person or persons shall make any false representation or pretenses as to having sufficient funds to pay such wages, and who after labor has been done under such employment by the employee or employees shall fail upon the discharge or resignation of such employee or employees, for a period of 5 days after such wages are legally payable, to pay the employee or employees on demand the wages due the employee or employees for such labor, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Last modified: February 25, 2006