So my little brother had a job working for a storage company. He had only held the job for about 2 weeks, and last Wed he was fired (no reason given). They failed to have his check ready that day; furthermore they failed to have gotten it to him today. They heartily promise to have it ready for him tomorrow morning. My wife and I are going to go down their with him to pick it up. Seems the California labor code was broken in several respects.

Apparently, according to sections 201 and 227.3 of the labor code, they were legally obligated to have his last check on hand and give it to him before he walked out the door. Which they failed to do.

Furthermore they’ve not given him his required last paycheck for a full 7 days (Nov 15 – 21.) So we looked into the labor code and found this little gem: “An employer who willfully fails to pay any wages due a terminated employee (discharged or quit) in the prescribed time frame may be assessed a waiting time penalty. The waiting time penalty is an amount equal to the employees daily rate of pay for each day the wages remain unpaid, up to a maximum of 30 calendar days.”

“Thanks” to the great state of California for making this information so clear and concisely available here:

http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/FAQ_Paydays.htm

So, 2 weeks owed wages at about 30 hours per week at about $8.50 per hour?

$433 after taxes

Failing to pay the above amount for 7 days?

$476

The “new girl” breaking the law,
Costing your company 2 times what you should have had to pay,
And realizing that this particular ex employee and friends are, unfortunately, not to be the idiots you’ve been hoping they would be?

Priceless