For current employees , not new employees, can an employer hold a weeks pay?
2006-10-06 04:20:44 · 5 answers · asked by jimh347 1 in Business & Finance ➔ Other - Business & Finance
For what purpose? It depends on what it is. But in general, no.
The answers directly below about 'standard practice' are not correct. 'Holding' pay is different than the lag time between the end of the pay period and the pay date resulting from processing time. It takes time to process the hours and calculate payroll, which generally makes it impossible to pay hourly employees for hours worked through the pay date. If you are paid hourly, you are probably getting paid weekly or bi-weekly, which means there is going to be a lag. You will ultimately get paid, it's just a matter of timing. When you terminate, there will be 1, possibly 2 checks afterwards for this very same reason.
2006-10-06 04:22:16 · answer #1 · answered by aint_no_stoppin_us 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
generally speaking, the larger companies payroll department takes a good week to process time cards and print checks. you get paid a week after the end of pay period. this has been interpreted as a weeks holding. if this is what you are talking about, then yes, a company can. however, if you mean for an employer to just arbitrarily withold pay no they can not do that.
2006-10-06 11:28:34 · answer #2 · answered by fn_49@hotmail.com 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My Company holds 2 weeks. When you leave or are let go you get a check 2 weeks after your gone. It's a pretty standard practice.
2006-10-06 11:23:40 · answer #3 · answered by kyrie_eleison_gr 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Are they trying to switch over to two weeks pay? Are they holding it against something you owe them (uniform rentals, unlocated tools, etc.) or is there garnishment?
2006-10-06 11:23:55 · answer #4 · answered by butnozzle 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah as long as they give it to you eventually that has happened on several jobs I have worked
2006-10-06 11:22:36 · answer #5 · answered by denise e 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋