§ 342 - Weekly payment of wages
§ 342. Weekly payment of wages
(a) Any person having employees in his or her service doing and transacting business within the state shall pay each week, in lawful money or checks, each of his or her employees, the wages earned by such employee to a day not more than six days prior to the date of such payment.
(b) After giving written notice to his or her employees, any person having employees in his or her service doing and transacting business within the state may, notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section, pay bi-weekly or semi-monthly in lawful money or checks, each of his or her employees, the wages earned by the employee to a day not more than six days prior to the date of the payment. If a collective bargaining agreement so provides, the payment may be made to a day not more than 13 days prior to the date of payment.
(c)(1) An employee who voluntarily leaves his or her employment shall be paid on the last regular pay day, or if there is no regular pay day, on the following Friday.
(2) An employee who is discharged from employment shall be paid within 72 hours of his or her discharge.
(3) If an employee is absent from his or her regular place of employment on the employer's regular scheduled date of wages or salary payment such employee shall be entitled to such payment upon demand.
(d) With the written authorization of an employee, an employer may pay wages due the employee by deposit through electronic funds transfer or other direct deposit systems to a checking, savings or other deposit account maintained by the employee in any financial institution within or without the state. (Amended 1963, No. 198, § 2; 1977, No. 44, § 1, eff. April 19, 1977; 1977, No. 244 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. May 1, 1978; 1979, No. 100 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)