Although the minimum wage has been raised to $6.50 in the state of Missouri, my friend's employee only paid her the old wage of $5.15 for over a month. Could her boss get into legal trouble for doing this, and can my friend recover the lost funds?
2007-01-21 16:33:35 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Have your friend go to the labor board about it. He has to pay whichever is higher, the state minimum wage of the federal minimum wage. She can recover lost funds with interest and he can get some hefty fines levied onto his business.
2007-01-21 16:41:29 · answer #1 · answered by Al Dave Ismail 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If I were your friend, I would definitely report the employer. But you know a strange thing? I put the question into the search engine and I found thihttp://geocities.com/freetradeforever/minimumwage.htms on the following website. And I must say it's pretty awful. It's a message board. Boy, I didn't think people like this existed, but I guess they do.
The other website: http://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/minimum-wage-rates.html is the legal issues.
I'm really wondering how people survive, raise families or even exist for that matter on anything equal to or less than minimum wage. The prices out here are sometimes staggering.
2007-01-22 00:45:28 · answer #2 · answered by chole_24 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes they can if the employer has enough employee's. In some states the minimum wage law isn't unforced if you only have 1 or 2 employee's. Everyone will get the back pay and you shouldn't be identified as the one who turned him in. If you tell one person though, it will get back.
2007-01-22 00:42:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes he can an yes she can get back pay go to you labor bored
2007-01-22 00:39:32 · answer #4 · answered by bigdogrex 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋