Boston University Beats Worker’s Timely-Pay Row After Law Change

A new Massachusetts law making certain employers immune from suits targeting monthly wage payment practices applies retroactively and dooms a Boston University lecturer’s claims of delayed pay.

The worker alleges she never chose monthly paychecks and Massachusetts law requires weekly or biweekly payment, but that law changed last month, the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts said. The new law protects BU from the lecturer’s lawsuit, and there’s no need for the state’s top court to weigh in, the Wednesday opinion said.

Plaintiff Lydia Curtin-Wilding sued the school on behalf of a would-be class made up of ...