New York Labor Law Article 6 - PAYMENT OF WAGES

• 190 - Definitions.
  As used in this article: 1. "Wages" means the earnings of an employee for labor or services rendered, regardless of whether the amount of earnings...
• 191 - Frequency of Payments.
  1. Every employer shall pay wages in accordance with the following provisions: a. Manual worker.--- (i) A manual worker shall be paid weekly and not...
• 191-a - Definitions.
  For purposes of this article the term: (a) "Commission" means compensation accruing to a sales representative for payment by a principal, the rate of which...
• 191-b - Contracts With Sales Representatives.
  1. When a principal contracts with a sales representative to solicit wholesale orders within this state, the contract shall be in writing and shall set...
• 191-c - Payment of Sales Commission.
  1. When a contract between a principal and a sales representative is terminated, all earned commissions shall be paid within five business days after termination...
• 192 - Cash Payment of Wages.
  1. No employer shall without the advance written consent of any employee directly pay or deposit the net wage or salary of such employee in...
• 193 - Deductions From Wages.
  * 1. No employer shall make any deduction from the wages of an employee, except deductions which: a. are made in accordance with the provisions...
• 194 - Differential in Rate of Pay Because of Sex Prohibited.
  1. No employee shall be paid a wage at a rate less than the rate at which an employee of the opposite sex in the...
• 195 - Notice and Record-Keeping Requirements.
  Every employer shall: 1. (a) provide his or her employees, in writing in English and in the language identified by each employee as the primary...
• 196 - Powers of Commissioner.
  1. In addition to the powers of the commissioner specified in other sections of this chapter, the commissioner shall have the following duties, powers and...
• 196-a - Complaints by Employees to Commissioner.
  (a) Any employee; person or organization acting on the employee's behalf; or the recognized and certified collective bargaining agent acting on the employee's behalf, may...
• 196-d - Gratuities.
  No employer or his agent or an officer or agent of any corporation, or any other person shall demand or accept, directly or indirectly, any...
• 197 - Civil Penalty.
  Any employer who fails to pay the wages of his employees or shall differentiate in rate of pay because of sex, as provided in this...
• 198 - Costs, Remedies.
  1. In any action instituted upon a wage claim by an employee or the commissioner in which the employee prevails, the court may allow such...
• 198-a - Criminal Penalties.
  1. Every employer who does not pay the wages of all of his employees in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, and the officers...
• 198-b - "Kick-Back" of Wages Prohibited.
  1. As used in this section, the term "person" shall include any firm, partnership, association, corporation or group of persons. 2. Whenever any employee who...
• 198-c - Benefits or Wage Supplements.
  1. In addition to any other penalty or punishment otherwise prescribed by law, any employer who is party to an agreement to pay or provide...
• 198-d - Posting Regulations on Illegal Wage Deductions.
  Every employer engaged in the sale or service of food or beverages shall post in his establishment, in a place accessible to his employees and...
• 199 - Rules and Regulations.
  The commissioner may issue such rules and regulations as he determines necessary for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this article.
• 199-a - Notification of Process.
  1. Each employee who files a complaint regarding a violation of a provision of this article (payment of wages), article nineteen (minimum wage act), or...

Last modified: February 3, 2019