Fired;Final paycheck;time frame

[Jesuslopez]

I live in Colorado. I was fired on a Wednesday at 11am and didn't get my check until Friday at 5:30 pm. Can't cash my check until post date on check which is on Sunday. Is this illegal???? Under Colorado employment law??

 

[justalayman]

Termination of Employment by the Employer

When an interruption in the employer-employee relationship by volition of the employer occurs, the wages or compensation for labor or service earned, vested, determinable, and unpaid at the time of such discharge are due and payable immediately, EXCEPT:

When the employer's accounting unit, responsible for the drawing of payroll checks, is not regularly scheduled to be operational, then the wages due the separated employee shall be made available to the employee no later than six hours after the start of such employer's accounting unit's next regular workday.
If the accounting unit is located off the work site, the employer shall deliver the check for wages due the separated employee no later than twenty-four hours after the start of such employer's accounting unit's next regular workday to one of the following locations selected by the employer:
a) the work site,
b) the employer's local office,
c) the employee's last-known mailing address.

https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/cdle/final-pay

it doesn't appear any of the exceptions apply since they have in fact issued a check already.


The problem; as long as the check cashes, nobody is going to care. It is not such a long period of time that it anybody will raise Hell with the employer. By the time you actually filed a complaint, you will have been paid which is the ultimate goal of the dol. You have a valid gripe but not one that anybody is going to act on.