WAGES AND SALARIES, TIME OF PAYMENT - REPEALED AS INCONSISTENT
Act of Apr. 24, 1913, P.L. 114, No. 76
Cl. 43
AN ACT
Regulating the time of payment of wages and earnings, and
providing a penalty for violation hereof.
Compiler's Note: Section 3 of Act 43 of 1971 provided that
Act 76 is repealed insofar as it is inconsistent with
Act 43.
Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That unless otherwise
stipulated in the contract of hiring, each person, firm, or
corporation employing any person, other than at an annual
salary, shall pay to such person his or her earnings or wages
semi-monthly. The first payment shall be made between the
first and fifteenth day of each month, and the second payment
shall be made between the fifteenth and the last day of each
month.
Section 2. Any person, firm, or corporation that shall
violate any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any alderman,
magistrate, or justice of the peace of the proper county shall
be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars
($100).
Compiler's Note: Section 28 of Act 207 of 2004 provided that
any and all references in any other law to a "district
justice" or "justice of the peace" shall be deemed to
be references to a magisterial district judge.
Section 3. Nothing in this act shall prohibit the payment of
wages or earnings oftener than semi-monthly.