Is it legal for a company to hold the first week paycheck of a new employee?

Question

I'm curious if a new employee is hired in the state of Mississippi, can their first week of pay be held to keep them from quitting without notice?

Answer 1

Most companies you are not paid for the current week that you worked. You are paid in the week after you have worked, therefore they are not holding back your salary. I worked in payroll for years and people do not realize all of the paperwork that is involved to process one payroll. Payroll taxes, bank fees, IRS reports, State withholding reports, medical, workers comp, etc.
I use to laugh to myself when friends would say you have an easy job. They did not realized how many hours that it takes to produce one payroll. Some companies pay weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, semi-monthly, it depends on the staff and the size of the company.
When I worked for the school district payroll was based on twenty days worked, and then the following Wednesday was payroll day. We had to verify if the person had enough illness leave, vacation, personal necessity to cover the hours or days that they were off work.
Plan ahead when you get paid until your next paycheck.

Answer 2

No, that is not legal in any state. However, people often assume that the first check is "held" when that is almost never the case. Usually it has to do with when the pay period begins and ends. If you begin work in the middle of a pay period (and after the company has transmitted its payroll to its payroll company) then the employee will miss the first paycheck.

Answer 3

Many agencies require workers to instruct in timesheets on Friday, yet not gets a commission till the subsequent Friday. this provides the accounting branch time to technique the numbers, and allow variations to be made, if mandatory. It additionally prevents the issue you element out of having to instruct in timesheets earlier than actually having finished the artwork. there is no actual loss of money. whilst your employment ends, you will nevertheless obtain pay for an added week. Your pay will continually be one million week at the back of your artwork. i'm hoping this facilitates.

Answer 4

They can't "hold" your pay. Most businesses however pay a week or two later than the hours you work. They have to have time to run the payroll and do the accounting.

Answer 5

The theory is if you sign the application for employment with all that tiny tiny print........they can pretty much do whatever they want as long as you need a job....all the way to the clause that states that they can "terminate you for any reason", its in every job application form, even the generic ones. You must sell your plasma until then