Contrary Pay-Delay Rulings Make Quandary for NYS Manual Workers

Manual laborers alleging violations of New York’s weekly pay requirement now face a split of authority over whether they have a private right to sue, with no word on when the state’s top court will resolve the intra-appellate divergence.

New York requires employers to pay people who perform manual labor weekly, instead of using the two-week pay period common for other jobs. One of the state’s intermediate-level appellate courts in 2019 ruled workers paid late had the right to enforce the law themselves rather than rely on regulators to do it, but a different quadrant of the same court reached ...