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2024 Indiana Code
Title 22. Labor and Safety
Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits
Chapter 5. Frequency of Wage Payments
22-2-5-2. Failure to Pay; Damages; Actions for Recovery

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IN Code § 22-2-5-2 (2024)
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Sec. 2. Every such person, firm, corporation, limited liability company, or association who shall fail to make payment of wages to any such employee as provided in section 1 of this chapter shall be liable to the employee for the amount of unpaid wages, and the amount may be recovered in any court having jurisdiction of a suit to recover the amount due to the employee. The court shall order as costs in the case a reasonable fee for the plaintiff's attorney and court costs. In addition, if the court in any such suit determines that the person, firm, corporation, limited liability company, or association that failed to pay the employee as provided in section 1 of this chapter was not acting in good faith, the court shall order, as liquidated damages for the failure to pay wages, that the employee be paid an amount equal to two (2) times the amount of wages due the employee.

Formerly: Acts 1933, c.47, s.2. As amended by P.L.144-1986, SEC.8; P.L.8-1993, SEC.274; P.L.193-2015, SEC.1.

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