2006 Minnesota Statutes

181.08 PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATIONS; PAYMENT OF WAGES,
REQUIREMENTS.
All public service corporations doing business within this state are required to pay their
employees at least semimonthly the wages earned by them to within 15 days of the date of such
payment, unless prevented by inevitable casualty. Such wages less any voluntarily authorized
payroll deduction set out in section 181.06 shall be paid in cash, or by checks convertible into
cash at full face value thereof, without any service, exchange, discount, float, or other charges, at
a bank designated by such public service corporation located in any city in which the employee
to whom the check is issued is employed or into which such employee is required to go in the
performance of work for the company issuing the same. It shall be the duty of the corporation to
make necessary arrangements with a bank for the cashing of these checks without such charges, or
to reimburse any employee who has paid such charges upon request. When an employee shall be
discharged wages shall be paid at the time of discharge or whenever the employee shall demand
the same thereafter; allowing a reasonable time within which to compute wages due and to make
authorized and other deductions required by law.
History: (4139) 1915 c 29 s 1; 1915 c 37 s 1; 1945 c 478 s 1; 1951 c 213 s 2; 1953 c 393 s
1; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7; 1986 c 444