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WY Stat § 27-4-103 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 27 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 4 - Wages|Article 1 - In General|Section 27-4-103 - Semimonthly Payments Required; Penalty.

27-4-103. Semimonthly payments required; penalty.| Every person violating any of the provisions of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not more than six (6) months, or by both fine and imprisonment.
WY Stat § 27-4-104 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 27 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 4 - Wages|Article 1 - In General|Section 27-4-104 - Payment of Employee Quitting or Discharged and Suit for Wages; Generally.

27-4-104. Payment of employee quitting or discharged and suit for wages; generally.| (a) Whenever an employee quits service or is discharged, the employee shall be paid whatever wages are due him in lawful money of the United States of America, or by check or draft which can be cashed at a bank, no later than the employer's usual practice on regularly scheduled payroll dates or at a time specified under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement between the employer and the employee. The employer may offset from any monies due the employee as wages, any sums due the employer from the employee which have been incurred by the employee during his employment. This section does not apply to the earnings of a sales agent employed on a commission basis and having custody of accounts, money or goods of his principal where the net amount due the agent may not be determinable except after an audit or verification of sales, accounts, funds or stocks.  (b) Whenever an employee who has quit, has been discharged from service, or because of action taken by the employer is prevented from working has cause to bring suit for wages earned and due, and shall establish in court the amount which is justly due, the court shall allow to the plaintiff interest on the past due wages at the rate of eighteen percent (18%) per annum from the date of discharge or termination or from the date when unpaid wages are required to be paid as specified in this act, together with a reasonable attorney fee and all costs of suit. Prosecution of a civil action to recover unpaid wages does not preclude prosecution under W.S. 27-4-105.
WY Stat § 27-4-105 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 27 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 4 - Wages|Article 1 - In General|Section 27-4-105 - Payment of Employee Quitting or Discharged and Suit for Wages; Penalty.

27-4-105. Payment of employee quitting or discharged and suit for wages; penalty.| Every person, firm or corporation willfully violating any of the provisions of W.S. 27-4-104 is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars ($500.00) nor more than seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00) for each offense.
WY Stat § 27-4-106 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 27 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 4 - Wages|Article 1 - In General|Section 27-4-106 - Assignment of Certain Accounts and Prosecution of Certain Suits Prohibited; Generally.

27-4-106. Assignment of certain accounts and prosecution of certain suits prohibited; generally.| It is hereby declared unlawful for any creditor or other holder of any evidence of debt, book account, or claim of any name or nature against any laborer, servant, clerk or other employee of any corporation, firm or individual in this state for the purpose below stated, to sell, assign, transfer, or by any means dispose of any such claim, book account, bill or debt of any name or nature whatever, to any person or persons, firm, corporation or institution, or to institute elsewhere than in this state or prosecute any suit or action for any such claim or debt against any such laborer, servant, clerk or employee, by any process seeking to seize, attach or garnish the wages of such person or persons earned within sixty (60) days prior to the commencement of such proceedings for the purpose of avoiding the effect of the laws of the state of Wyoming concerning exemptions.
WY Stat § 27-4-107 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 27 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 4 - Wages|Article 1 - In General|Section 27-4-107 - Assignment of Certain Accounts and Prosecution of Certain Suits Prohibited; Aiding Violation Deemed Unlawful.

27-4-107. Assignment of certain accounts and prosecution of certain suits prohibited; aiding violation deemed unlawful.| It is hereby declared unlawful for any person or persons to aid, assist, abet or counsel a violation of W.S. 27-4-106 for any purpose whatever.
WY Stat § 27-4-108 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 27 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 4 - Wages|Article 1 - In General|Section 27-4-108 - Assignment of Certain Accounts and Prosecution of Certain Suits Prohibited; Prima Facie Evidence.

27-4-108. Assignment of certain accounts and prosecution of certain suits prohibited; prima facie evidence.| In any proceeding, civil or criminal, growing out of a breach of W.S. 27-4-106 and 27-4-107, proof of the institution of a suit or service of garnishment summons by any persons, firm or individual in any court of any state or territory other than this state, to seize by process of garnishment or otherwise, any of the wages of such persons as defined in section 1 of this act shall be deemed prima facie evidence of an evasion of the laws of the state of Wyoming, and a breach of the provisions of W.S. 27-4-106 through 27-4-109 on the part of the creditor or resident in Wyoming causing the same to be done.
WY Stat § 27-4-109 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 27 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 4 - Wages|Article 1 - In General|Section 27-4-109 - Assignment of Certain Accounts and Prosecution of Certain Suits Prohibited; Liability and Penalty for Unlawful Assignment.

27-4-109. Assignment of certain accounts and prosecution of certain suits prohibited; liability and penalty for unlawful assignment.| Any person, firm, company, corporation, or business institution guilty of a violation of W.S. 27-4-106 and 27-4-107 shall be liable to the party so injured for the amount of the debt sold, assigned, transferred, garnisheed, or sued upon, with all costs and expenses, and a reasonable attorney's fee to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction in this state, and shall further be liable by prosecution to punishment by a fine not exceeding the sum of one hundred dollars ($100.00) and costs of prosecution.
WY Stat § 27-4-110 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 27 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 4 - Wages|Article 1 - In General|Section 27-4-110 - Assignments of Wages; Acceptance by Employer; Filing.

27-4-110. Assignments of wages; acceptance by employer; filing.| No assignment of, or order for, wages to be earned in the future to secure a loan of less than two hundred dollars ($200.00) shall be valid against an employer of the person making said assignment or order until said assignment or order is accepted in writing by the employer, and said assignment or order and the acceptance of the same have been filed and recorded with the clerk of the city or town where the party making said assignment or order resides, if a resident of this state, or in which he is employed, if not a resident of the commonwealth.
WY Stat § 27-4-111 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 27 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 4 - Wages|Article 1 - In General|Section 27-4-111 - Assignments of Wages; Consent of Marital Spouse Required.

27-4-111. Assignments of wages; consent of marital spouse required.| No assignment of or order for, wages to be earned in the future shall be valid, when made by a married individual, unless the written consent of the spouse to the assignment is attached thereto.
WY Stat § 27-4-112 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 27 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 4 - Wages|Article 1 - In General|Section 27-4-112 - Assignments of Wages; Certain Banks Exempt From Assignment Provisions.

27-4-112. Assignments of wages; certain banks exempt from assignment provisions.| National banks and all banking institutions which are under the supervision of the bank examiner shall be exempt from the provisions of this act.
WY Stat § 27-4-113 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 27 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 4 - Wages|Article 1 - In General|Section 27-4-113 - Contracts for Alien Labor; When Unenforceable.

27-4-113. Contracts for alien labor; when unenforceable.| No contract made for labor or services with any alien or foreigner previous to the time that such alien or foreigner may come into the state shall be enforced within this state for any period after six (6) months from the date of such contract.
WY Stat § 27-4-114 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 27 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 4 - Wages|Article 1 - In General|Section 27-4-114 - Contracts for Alien Labor; Measure of Recovery; Defenses.

27-4-114. Contracts for alien labor; measure of recovery; defenses.| Any alien or foreigner who shall hereafter perform labor or services for any person or persons, company or corporation within this state, shall be entitled to recover from such person or persons, company or corporation, a reasonable compensation for such labor or services, notwithstanding such person or persons, company or corporation may have paid any other party or parties for the same; and in actions for the price of such labor or services, no defense shall be admitted to the effect that the defendant or defendants had contracted with other parties who had, or pretended to have, power or authority to hire out the labor or services of such party or parties, or to receive the pay or price for such labor or services.
WY Stat § 27-4-115 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 27 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 4 - Wages|Article 1 - In General|Section 27-4-115 - Contracts for Alien Labor; Third Party Receiving Pay for Alien's Labor Prohibited.

27-4-115. Contracts for alien labor; third party receiving pay for alien's labor prohibited.| Any person, whether he or she acts for himself or herself, or as agent, attorney or employee for another or others, who shall, in pursuance of, or by virtue of, any contract made with any alien or foreigner, made before such alien or foreigner came into this state, receive or offer to receive any money, pay or remuneration for the labor or services of any alien or foreigner, excepting the person so performing such labor or services, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be fined in a sum not less than five hundred dollars ($500.00), and not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000.00), and imprisoned in the county jail for not less than three (3) nor more than twelve (12) months, for each and every offense.
WY Stat § 27-4-116 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 27 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 4 - Wages|Article 1 - In General|Section 27-4-116 - Employee Not Liable for Dishonored Check; Penalty.

27-4-116. Employee not liable for dishonored check; penalty.| (a) No employer shall withhold money from an employee's wages for accepting a check on behalf of the employer which is not paid because the check is dishonored unless:  (i) The employer has provided written instructions as to procedures for accepting checks and the employee fails to follow the procedures; or  (ii) The employer reasonably believes that the employee has been a party to a fraud or other wrongdoing in taking a dishonored check.  (b) Every employer who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00).
WY Stat § 27-4-201 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 27 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 4 - Wages|Article 2 - Minimum Wages|Section 27-4-201 - Definitions.

27-4-201. Definitions.| (a) As used in this act:  (i) "Wage" means compensation due to an employee by reason of his employment;  (ii) "Employ" includes to suffer or to permit to work;  (iii) "Employer" includes any individual, partnership, association, corporation, business trust, or any person or group of persons acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer in relation to an employee;  (iv) "Employee" includes any individual employed by an employer but shall not include:  (A) Any individual employed in agriculture;  (B) Any individual employed in domestic service in or about a private home;  (C) Any individual employed in a bona fide executive, administrative, or professional capacity;  (D) Any individual employed by the United States, or by the state or any political subdivision thereof;  (E) Any individual engaged in the activities of an educational, charitable, religious, or nonprofit organization where the employer-employee relationship does not, in fact, exist or where the services rendered to such organization are on a voluntary basis;  (F) Repealed By Laws 2001, Ch. 1, § 2.  (G) Any individual employed as an outside salesman whose compensation is solely commission on sales;  (H) Any individual whose employment is driving an ambulance or other vehicle from time to time as necessity requires but who is on call at any time;  (J) Repealed By Laws 2001, Ch. 1, § 2.  (v) In this act, "shall" is used in an imperative sense and "may" is used in a permissive sense;  (vi) "Occupation" means any occupation, service, trade, business, industry, or branch or group of industries or employment or class of employment in which individuals are gainfully employed.
WY Stat § 27-4-202 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 27 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 4 - Wages|Article 2 - Minimum Wages|Section 27-4-202 - Minimum Wage Rates.

27-4-202. Minimum wage rates.| (a) Every employer shall pay to each of his or her employees wages at a rate of not less than five dollars and fifteen cents ($5.15) per hour.  (b) Effective April 1, 2001 and thereafter, all employers who employ tipped employees shall not pay less than two dollars and thirteen cents ($2.13) per hour to his tipped employees. Provided further, if the wage paid by the employer combined with the tips received by the employee during a given pay period does not equal at least the applicable minimum wage as prescribed in subsection (a) of this section, the employer shall pay the difference to the tipped employee. For the purposes of this act, all "tip" employees shall furnish monthly to their respective employers the daily record of tips required to be kept by "tip" employees under the laws of the United States and upon the forms prescribed by the internal revenue service of the United States treasury department. The daily record of tips shall constitute prima facie proof of the amount of tips received by the employee. Proof of a customary tipping percentage of sales or service shall also be an admissible form of proof of the amount of tips. A "tip" employee is one who customarily and regularly receives more than thirty dollars ($30.00) a month in tips.  (c) In lieu of the rate prescribed in subsection (a) of this section, any employer may pay any employee who has not attained the age of twenty (20) years a wage which is not less than four dollars and twenty-five cents ($4.25) per hour during the first ninety (90) consecutive days after the employee is initially employed by the employer. No employer may take any action to displace employees, including partial displacements such as reduction in hours, wages or employment benefits for purposes of hiring individuals at the wage authorized in this subsection.
WY Stat § 27-4-203 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 27 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 4 - Wages|Article 2 - Minimum Wages|Section 27-4-203 - Record of Work of Employees Required.

27-4-203. Record of work of employees required.| Every employer subject to this act shall make, and keep for a period of not less than two (2) years in or about the premises wherein any employee is employed, a record of the name, address and occupation of each of his employees, the rate of pay, and the amount paid each pay period to each such employee, the hours worked each day and each work week by such employee.
WY Stat § 27-4-204 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 27 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 4 - Wages|Article 2 - Minimum Wages|Section 27-4-204 - Liability for Unpaid Minimum Wage; Suit for Collection.

27-4-204. Liability for unpaid minimum wage; suit for collection.| (a) Any employer who shall pay to any employee wages at a rate less than that prescribed in the foregoing section shall be liable in a civil action, to the employee in the amount of his or her unpaid minimum wage, and the aggrieved employee may bring a civil action for enforcement of this act and the recovery of his or her unpaid wages together with reasonable attorney fees and the costs of the action.  (b) Repealed by Laws 1990, ch. 71, § 2.  (c) Repealed by Laws 1990, ch. 71, § 2.
WY Stat § 27-4-301 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 27 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 4 - Wages|Article 3 - Equal Pay|Section 27-4-301 - Definitions.

27-4-301. Definitions.| (a) "Employee" means any individual employed by an employer.  (b) "Employer" includes any person acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer in relation to an employee.  (c) "Employ" includes to suffer or permit to work.  (d) "Occupation" includes any industry, trade, business or branch thereof, or any employment or class of employment.  (e) "Director" means the director of the department of workforce services or his designee who is authorized to administer W.S. 27-4-301 through 27-4-304.  (f) "Person" includes one (1) or more individuals, partnerships, corporations, associations, legal representatives, trustees, trustees in bankruptcy or receivers.
WY Stat § 27-4-302 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 27 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 4 - Wages|Article 3 - Equal Pay|Section 27-4-302 - Prohibition on Paying Employees Less for Same Work.

27-4-302. Prohibition on paying employees less for same work.| (a) No employer shall discriminate, within the same establishment in which the employees are employed, between employees on the basis of gender by paying wages to employees at a rate less than the rate at which the employer pays wages to employees of the opposite gender for equal work on jobs the performance of which requires equal skill, effort and responsibility and which are performed under similar working conditions, except where the payment is made pursuant to:  (i) A seniority system;  (ii) A merit system;  (iii) A system which measures earning by quantity or quality of production; or  (iv) A differential based on any other factor other than gender.
WY Stat § 27-4-303 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 27 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 4 - Wages|Article 3 - Equal Pay|Section 27-4-303 - Liability of Employer Generally; Liquidated Damages; Individual and Group Actions; Assignment of Claim.

27-4-303. Liability of employer generally; liquidated damages; individual and group actions; assignment of claim.| (a) An employer who violates the provisions of W.S. 27-4-302 shall be liable to the employee or employees affected in the amount of their unpaid wages, and in an additional equal amount as liquidated damages. Action to recover liability may be maintained in any court of competent jurisdiction by any one (1) or more employees for and in behalf of the employee or the employees and other employees similarly situated, and no agreement by the employee to work for less than the wage to which the employee is entitled under this act shall be a defense to any action.  (b) Upon receipt of a written claim by any employee of a violation of this act, the director shall process, investigate and determine the validity of the claim. The director shall have power to join various claims against the same employer in one (1) claim. If either the employer or employee is aggrieved by the director's determination, the aggrieved party may request a fair hearing. The aggrieved party must file a written request for hearing within fifteen (15) calendar days of receipt of the director's determination. Upon receipt of a timely submitted request for hearing, the director shall appoint an independent hearing officer to conduct the fair hearing between the employer and employee. The fair hearing shall be conducted pursuant to the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act. The hearing officer's determination shall constitute the director's final agency action. Upon a finding by the hearing officer that the claim is valid, the director shall order the employer to pay the amount of wages due plus an additional equal amount as liquidated damages. Where the employer failed to appeal an adverse determination to the district court and failed to comply with the director's order, the director shall refer the matter to the appropriate county attorney for enforcement of the director's order.
WY Stat § 27-4-304 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 27 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 4 - Wages|Article 3 - Equal Pay|Section 27-4-304 - Penalty for Violations.

27-4-304. Penalty for violations.| Any employer who willfully violates any provision of this act, or who discharges or in any other manner discriminates against any employee because the employee has made any complaint to his employer, the director or any other person, or instituted, or caused to be instituted any proceeding under or related to this act, or has testified or is about to testify in the proceedings, shall, upon conviction by a court of competent jurisdiction, be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), by imprisonment for not more than six (6) months, or both.
WY Stat § 27-4-401 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 27 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 4 - Wages|Article 4 - Prevailing Wages|Section 27-4-401 - Short Title.

27-4-401. Short title.| This act may be known and may be cited as the Wyoming Prevailing Wage Act of 1967.
WY Stat § 27-4-402 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 27 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 4 - Wages|Article 4 - Prevailing Wages|Section 27-4-402 - Definitions.

27-4-402. Definitions.| (a) As used in this act:  (i) "Construction" includes construction, reconstruction, improvement, enlargement, alteration or repair of any public improvement fairly estimated to cost one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) or more;  (ii) "Director" shall mean the director of the department or his designee;  (iii) "Prevailing hourly rate of wages" means the wages paid generally to and the associated customary and usual fringe benefit costs paid on behalf of workers engaged in work of a similar character;  (iv) Repealed By Laws 2001, Ch. 145, § 2.  (v) "Maintenance work" means the repair, but not the replacement, of existing facilities when the size, type or extent of the existing facilities is not thereby changed or increased;  (vi) "Public body" means the state of Wyoming or any officer, board or commission of the state;  (vii) "Public works" means all fixed works constructed for public use, whether or not done under public supervision or direction, or paid for wholly or in part out of public funds or assessment of property owners or rights users;  (viii) "Workmen" means laborers, workmen and mechanics employed directly upon the actual construction site by contractors or subcontractors or the public body;  (ix) "Locality" for public heavy, highway projects and public building projects means the following districts wherein the physical work is performed:  (A) For federal highway and construction projects:  (I) The entire state of Wyoming excluding any area defined as a metropolitan statistical area pursuant to 44 U.S.C. 3504(e)(3) and 31 U.S.C. 1104(d);  (II) Any area defined as a metropolitan statistical area pursuant to 44 U.S.C. 3504(e)(3) and 31 U.S.C. 1104(d).  (B) For state only heavy and highway projects, the entire state of Wyoming;  (C) For public building projects, the entire state of Wyoming.  (x) "Department" means the department of workforce services;  (xi) "This act" means W.S. 27-4-401 through 27-4-413.