Legal Question in Employment Law in Pennsylvania
paycheck
my employeer will not give me my paycheck that was due to me on May 02,2007. I have been contacting the company almost daily and have been lied to many times, now they will not answer my calls. I need my pay what can I do?
2 Answers from Attorneys
Re: paycheck
The Pa dept of labor and industry has an online complaint form to address this issue.
If your employer does not respond to the Commonwealth of Pa their are remedies that a lawyer can assust with that may also require your employer to pay legal fees but they will take some time.
Search PA dept of labor and industry for the complaint form.
Good luck to you.
Re: paycheck
You may have a lawsuit.
Payment of employees� wages in general, are governed by Pennsylvania�s Wage Payment and Collection Law (�WCPL�), which can be found at 43 P.S. � 260.1 et seq.
The WPCL does not create a right to compensation, but rather provides a statutory remedy when an employer breaches its contractual obligation to pay an employee�s earned wages. The contract between employer and employee, whether written or verbal, governs the questions of whether and when specific wages have been earned and are due. The WPCL is a tool for employees to recover wages which are due and unpaid, with mechanisms crafted into the law which encourage the parties to avoid litigation.
THIS DOES NOT CREATE A LAWYER-CLIENT RELATIONSHIP; THIS DOES NOT CONSTITUTE LEGAL ADVICE.
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