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Payday is a good day.\u00a0 <\/span>With a few exceptions, employees in California must be paid at least twice per month on the days that are designated by the employer in advance of the regular paydays.\u00a0 <\/span>Employers are required to set a regular payday and are required to post a notice that informs its employees about the day, time, and location of payment.\u00a0 <\/span>Wages earned by an employee between the 1<\/span>st<\/sup><\/span> and 15<\/span>th<\/sup><\/span> days of a month must be paid no later than the 26<\/span>th<\/sup><\/span> day of the month in which the work was performed; wages earned by an employee between the 16<\/span>th<\/sup><\/span> and last day of a month must be paid no later than the 10<\/span>th<\/sup><\/span> days of the following month.\u00a0 <\/span>If an employee is paid weekly, biweekly (every two weeks), or semimonthly (twice a month), then wages must be paid no later than seven days after the close of the pay period.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If an employee is terminated, then the employer must pay him\/her all of his\/her wages, including accrued vacation, immediately at the time of termination.\u00a0 <\/span>If an employee resigns with more than three days\u2019 (72 hours) notice, then the employer is required to provide the employee\u2019s final wages on the employee\u2019s last day of employment.\u00a0 <\/span>If an employee resigns and gives less than three days\u2019 notice, then the employer is required to provide the employee\u2019s final wages within 72-hours of the employee\u2019s quitting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

An employer who willfully fails to pay an employee his\/her final wages within the time limits stated above, then the employee will be allowed to recover \u201cwaiting time penalties\u201d from the employer.\u00a0 <\/span>The waiting time penalty is an amount equal to the employee\u2019s daily rate of pay for each pay day that the wage remained unpaid, not to exceed 30 days.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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