US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

                                  TITLE  45
                         LIENS, MORTGAGES AND PLEDGES
                                  CHAPTER 6
                               CLAIMS FOR WAGES
    45-614.  COLLECTION OF WAGES -- LIMITATIONS. Any person shall have the
right to collect wages, penalties and liquidated damages provided by any law
or pursuant to a contract of employment, but any action thereon shall be filed
either with the department or commenced in a court of competent jurisdiction
within two (2) years after the cause of action accrued, provided, however,
that in the event salary or wages have been paid to any employee and such
employee claims additional salary, wages, penalties or liquidated damages,
because of work done or services performed during his employment for the pay
period covered by said payment, any action therefor shall be commenced within
six (6) months from the accrual of the cause of action. It is further provided
that if any such cause of action has accrued prior to the effective date of
this act, and is not barred by existing law, action thereon may be commenced
within six (6) months from the effective date of this act. In the event an
action is not commenced as herein provided, any remedy on the cause of action
shall be forever barred.