Paycheck withholding

[Murphy497]

I live in Ohio. My boss sent out an email saying that they are going to withhold one weeks pay. This did not happen for any employee since they have started. I have been with the company 9 years and they never withheld my first paycheck and now they want to do this for every employee. Is this legal after so much time has passed?

 

[quincy]

I live in Ohio. My boss sent out an email saying that they are going to withhold one weeks pay. This did not happen for any employee since they have started. I have been with the company 9 years and they never withheld my first paycheck and now they want to do this for every employee. Is this legal after so much time has passed?

WHY are paychecks being withheld?

 

[Murphy497]

Because they never withheld when I was hired 9 year ago. They have not withheld any employees first pay like most companies do.

 

[justalayman]

Because they never withheld when I was hired 9 year ago. They have not withheld any employees first pay like most companies do.

Under most circumstances a company is required to pay its employees all of
The money earned in the first half of a month by the first of the following month. Then by the 15th of
The month the money earned In the second half of the month. As long as their delay in issuing your pay does not cause that to be violated, they can delay your next check.

A) Every individual, firm, partnership, association, or corporation doing business in this state shall, on or before the first day of each month, pay all its employees the wages earned by them during the first half of the preceding month ending with the fifteenth day thereof, and shall, on or before the fifteenth day of each month, pay such employees the wages earned by them during the last half of the preceding calendar month. If at any time of payment an employee is absent from his regular place of labor and does not receive his wages through an authorized representative, such person shall be entitled to said payment at any time thereafter upon demand upon the proper paymaster at the place where such wages are usually paid and where such pay is due. This section does not prohibit the daily or weekly payment of wages, the use of a longer time lapse that is customary to a given trade, profession or occupation, or establishment of a different time lapse by written contract or by operation of law.

 

[Murphy497]

Ok so if I understand this right. Since they never withheld anyone pay for the first half of the month, they can legally do this now after 9 years of employment?

 

[justalayman]

Ok so if I understand this right. Since they never withheld anyone pay for the first half of the month, they can legally do this now after 9 years of employment?

Employers do not get to withold pay. They can schedule paydays as the law allows. If that allows a delay from the current pay schedule then it may appear they are withholding pay but it is actually nothing more than a delay in the payment of the wages.

 

[Murphy497]

Thank you for the clarification

 

[cbg]

Are they withholding pay,or are they changing to a biweekly payroll and this is the transition?