Payday lands on holiday

[pucker]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? MO
If your payday lands on a holiday can the employer choose when they are going to pay you? The last two holidays landed on our payday and we got paid on wednesday. Tomorrow is our payday and a holiday, but today when they passed out the checks they are all dated for friday. Friday is also a holiday for us.

 

[Antigone*]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? MO
If your payday lands on a holiday can the employer choose when they are going to pay you? The last two holidays landed on our payday and we got paid on wednesday. Tomorrow is our payday and a holiday, but today when they passed out the checks they are all dated for friday. Friday is also a holiday for us.

You can deposit your check into your bank account. Unless the employer has no funds, you should be okay.

 

[Zigner]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? MO
If your payday lands on a holiday can the employer choose when they are going to pay you? The last two holidays landed on our payday and we got paid on wednesday. Tomorrow is our payday and a holiday, but today when they passed out the checks they are all dated for friday. Friday is also a holiday for us.

Friday is not a legal holiday.

 

[cbg]

A very, very few states require the acceleration of pay when payday lands on a holiday (i.e. if payday is a Thursday and the holiday is Thursday you must be paid on Wednesday). However, to the best of my knowledge Missouri is not one of these few states. It is quite legal for them to pay you on Friday instead of Thursday.

This is a good reason for direct deposit. Tomorrow should have been payday for me; my state does not require acceleration; my employer is also closed on Friday; since I have direct deposit I will be paid on Friday anyway.

 

[pucker]

I know friday isn't a legal holiday, but it was a holiday for us.

Thanks for the help cbg. I have direct deposit and it didn't do me any good. They didn't deposit anything till friday.

 

[cbg]

Well, of course you didn't get paid on Thursday by direct deposit. The banks were closed. How was the money supposed to be directed to your account? It's not a completely automated process, you know; SOMEONE has to push the buttons on the computer.

But since Friday was a holiday for you, if you did not have direct deposit it would have been Monday before you were paid.

 

[pucker]

Sorry i misread what you wrote about your direct deposit.

 

[swrdmbo]

I have to ask...why would you even be posting about this?

Your check was deposited on Friday...what is the complaint? If 24 hours makes such a big difference you need to seriously come up with a different plan.

With so many people out of work and no paychecks I think you are very lucky if this is the big problem in your life. Sheesh!

 

[pucker]

I posted it because alot of us where i worked wanted to know if it was ok for them to do that since every other holiday we got paid the day before.


Before you make comments about people maybe you should know a little about them. For the fact that my husband has been laid off out of nowhere and can't find any work right now so this is a big problem for me. When you only have one paycheck coming in and kids at home to take care of 24 hours does make a big difference right now. If I could do something differnt I would but making a DIFFERENT PLAN isn't going to happen right now.