Every employer shall pay every employee all wages and tips accruing to the employee on the regular payday. Pay periods may be daily, weekly, bi-weekly, semi-monthly, or monthly. Wages based upon bonuses, commissions, or other forms of calculation may be paid as infrequently as annually if prescribed in advance.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 95-25.6
Wage payment
Known as the Wage and Hour Act
The act spans §§ 95–95 (28 sections).
Applied in 30 court decisions — leading case 190 N.C. App. 315 - Washburn v. Yadkin Valley Bank & Trust Co. (2008)
Most recently applied in Lima v. MH & WH, LLC (March 2019)
1975, c. 413, s. 3; 1977, c. 826, s. 3; 1979, c. 839, s. 1.
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