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Home » US Law » 2022 West Virginia Code » Chapter 21. Labor » Article 5. Wage Payment and Collection

§21-5-6. Refusal to Pay Wages or Redeem Orders

If any person, firm or corporation shall refuse for the period of five days to settle with and pay any of its employees at the intervals of time as provided in section three of this article, or to provide fringe benefits after the same are due, or shall neglect or refuse to redeem any cash […]

§21-5-7. Prime Contractor”s Responsibility for Wages and Benefits

(a) Whenever any person, firm, or corporation shall contract with another for the performance of any work which the prime contracting person has undertaken to perform for another, the prime contractor shall become civilly liable to employees engaged in the performance of work under the contract for the payment of wages and fringe benefits relating […]

§21-5-8. Checkweighman Where Wages Depend on Production

Where the amount of wages paid to any of the persons employed in any manufacturing, mining, or other enterprise employing labor, depends upon the amount produced by weight or measure, the persons so employed may, at their own cost, station or appoint at each place appointed for the weighing or measuring of the products of […]

§21-5-8a. Deceased Employees

In the event of the death of any employee, wages due him by a person, firm or corporation not in excess of $800 may upon proper demand be paid, in the absence of actual notice of the pendency of probate proceedings, without requiring letters testamentary or of administration in the following order of preference to […]