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Chapter 21
5
Wage Payment and Collection.
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21-5-1
Definitions.
21-5-2
Semimonthly payment of wages by railroads.
21-5-3
Payment of wages by employers other than railroads; assignments of wages.
21-5-4
Cash orders; employees separated from payroll before paydays; employer provided property.
21-5-4a
Safe Harbor.
21-5-5
Coercion of employees to purchase merchandise in payment of wages; sale of merchandise for more than prevailing cash value.
21-5-5a
Definitions.
21-5-5b
Employer limitations on use of detection of deception devices or instruments; exceptions.
21-5-5c
License required for psychophysiological detection of deception examiners; qualifications; promulgation of rules governing administration of psychophysiological detection of deception examinations.
21-5-5d
Penalties; cause of action.
21-5-6
Refusal to pay wages or redeem orders.
21-5-7
Prime contractor’s responsibility for wages and benefits.
21-5-8
Checkweighman where wages depend on production.
21-5-8a
Deceased employees.
21-5-9
Notification, posting and records.
21-5-10
Provisions of law may not be waived by agreement.
21-5-11
Administrative enforcement.
21-5-12
Employees' remedies.
21-5-13
Rules and regulations.
21-5-14
Employer’s bond for wages and benefits.
21-5-14a
Insufficiency of bond; manner of distribution.
21-5-15
Violations; cease and desist orders and appeals therefrom; criminal penalties.
21-5-16
Contractors and subcontractors to notify commissioner.
21-5-17
Employers prohibited from discharging employees for time lost as volunteer firemen or emergency medical service attendant.
21-5-18
Employers prohibited from discharging employees for time lost as emergency medical service personnel.