337.020 Time of payment of wages -- Exception.
Every employer doing business in this state shall, as often as semimonthly, pay to each of <br>its employees all wages or salary earned to a day not more than eighteen (18) days prior to <br>the date of that payment. Any employee who is absent at the time fixed for payment, or <br>who, for any other reason, is not paid at that time, shall be paid thereafter at any time <br>upon six (6) days' demand. No employer subject to this section shall, by any means, <br>secure exemption from it. Every such employee shall have a right of action against any <br>such employer for the full amount of his wages due on each regular pay day. The <br>provisions of this section do not apply to those individuals defined in KRS <br>337.010(2)(a)2.
Effective: July 15, 1982 <br>History: Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 126, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1982. -- Amended
1978 Ky. Acts ch. 340, sec. 2, effective June 17, 1978. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts <br>ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 576a-1.
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