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IN Code § 22-2-9-3 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 9. Wage Claims|22-2-9-3. Disputes; Payment of Amount Agreed Upon

Sec. 3. In case of a dispute over wages, the employer shall give notice to the employee of the amount of wages which he concedes to be due, and shall pay such amount, without condition, within the time fixed by this chapter, but the acceptance by the employee of any payment made under this chapter shall not constitute a release as to any balance of his claim.Formerly: Acts 1939, c.95, s.3. As amended by P.L.144-1986, SEC.14.
IN Code § 22-2-9-4 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 9. Wage Claims|22-2-9-4. Investigations; Civil Actions

Sec. 4. (a) It shall be the duty of the commissioner of labor to enforce and to insure compliance with the provisions of this chapter, to investigate any violations of any of the provisions of this chapter, and to institute or cause to be instituted actions for penalties and forfeitures provided under this chapter. The commissioner of labor may hold hearings to satisfy himself as to the justice of any claim, and he shall cooperate with any employee in the enforcement of any claim against his employer in any case whenever, in his opinion, the claim is just and valid.(b) The commissioner of labor may refer claims for wages under this chapter to the attorney general, and the attorney general may initiate civil actions on behalf of the claimant or may refer the claim to any attorney admitted to the practice of law in Indiana. The provisions of IC 22-2-5-2 apply to civil actions initiated under this subsection by the attorney general or his designee.Formerly: Acts 1939, c.95, s.4. As amended by P.L.127-1984, SEC.1.
IN Code § 22-2-9-5 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 9. Wage Claims|22-2-9-5. Assignment of Claims; Joinder of Actions

Sec. 5. (a) The commissioner of labor is hereby authorized to take assignments of wage claims of less than six thousand dollars ($6,000), rights of action for penalties, mechanics and other liens of workers, without being bound by any of the technical rules with reference to the validity of such assignments, and shall have power and authority to prosecute actions for the collection of such claims of persons who, in the judgment of the commissioner:(1) are entitled to the services of the commissioner; and(2) have claims which are valid and enforceable in the court.(b) The commissioner shall have power to join various claimants in one (1) preferred claim or lien, and, in case of suit, to join them in one (1) cause of action.Formerly: Acts 1939, c.95, s.5; Acts 1965, c.68, s.1; Acts 1971, P.L.351, SEC.1. As amended by P.L.165-2007, SEC.2.
IN Code § 22-2-9-6 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 9. Wage Claims|22-2-9-6. Actions and Proceedings; Costs; Bond; Sheriff's Fees

Sec. 6. (a) In all actions brought by the labor commissioner as assignee under section 5 of this chapter, no court costs of any nature shall be required to be advanced nor shall any bond or other security therefor be required from the commissioner in connection with the same.(b) Any sheriff, constable, or other officer requested by the commissioner to serve summons, writs, complaints, or orders and all necessary and legal papers within his jurisdiction shall do so without requiring the commissioner to advance the fees or furnish any security or bond therefor.Formerly: Acts 1939, c.95, s.6. As amended by P.L.144-1986, SEC.15.
IN Code § 22-2-9-7 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 9. Wage Claims|22-2-9-7. Savings Clause

Sec. 7. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to repeal IC 22-2-5.Formerly: Acts 1939, c.95, s.8. As amended by P.L.144-1986, SEC.16.
IN Code § 22-2-9-8 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 9. Wage Claims|22-2-9-8. Exemption for Criminal Offenders

Sec. 8. Criminal offenders in a facility operated by the department of correction (as established by IC 11-8-2-1) or operated by a private operator under contract with the department of correction are specifically exempt from this chapter.As added by P.L.223-2013, SEC.6.
IN Code § 22-2-10-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 10. Employees as Preferred Creditors|22-2-10-1. Assignments for Benefit of Creditors; Bankruptcy; Salesmen

Sec. 1. When the property of any company, corporation, limited liability company, firm or person, engaged in any manufacturing, mechanical, agricultural or other business or employment, or in the construction of any work or building, shall be seized upon any mesne or final process of any court of the state, or where their business shall be suspended by the action of creditors or put into the hands of any assignee, receiver, or trustee, then in all such cases the debts owing to laborers or employees, which have accrued by reason of their labor or employment to an amount not exceeding six hundred dollars ($600) to each employee, for work and labor performed within three (3) months next preceding the seizure of such property, shall be considered and treated as preferred debts and such laborers or employees shall be preferred creditors and shall be first paid in full, and if there be not sufficient to pay them in full then the same shall be paid to them pro rata, after paying costs; however, the term employees as used in this section shall include traveling salesmen, traveling agents and manufacturers' agents, whether they are employed under monthly or yearly contracts or otherwise.Formerly: Acts 1879(ss), c.62, s.1; Acts 1885(ss), c.3, s.1; Acts 1917, c.109, s.1; Acts 1967, c.104, s.1. As amended by P.L.8-1993, SEC.277; P.L.136-2018, SEC.111.
IN Code § 22-2-12-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 12. Employee Benefit Plans|22-2-12-1. Payment or Refund of Wages; Estates of Decedents; Beneficiaries; Release of Employer

Sec. 1. Whenever payment or refund is made to an employee, former employee, or his beneficiary or his heirs, legatees or the representative of his estate pursuant to a written retirement, death, or other employee benefit plan or savings plan, such payment or refund shall fully discharge the employer, former employer, and any trustee making such payment or refund from all adverse claims thereto unless, before such payment or refund is made, the employer or former employer, where the payment or refund is made by the employer or former employer, has received at its principal place of business within this state, written notice by or on behalf of some other person that such other person claims to be entitled to such payment or refund or some part thereof, or where a trustee is making the payment or refund, such notice has been received by the trustee at its home office.Formerly: Acts 1957, c.63, s.1.
IN Code § 22-2-12-2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 12. Employee Benefit Plans|22-2-12-2. Corporate Stock; Payment or Refund; Release of Employer

Sec. 2. Should said payment or refund made as provided in section 1 of this chapter be comprised in whole or in part of stock in any corporation, such corporation may accept said stock for transfer as directed by the employer, former employer, or the trustee making such payment or refund, and shall be entitled to treat the transferee as the owner of the stock for all purposes unless and until the corporation has received at its home office written notice by or on behalf of some other person that the other person claims to be entitled to the stock or to some interest in the stock.Formerly: Acts 1957, c.63, s.2. As amended by P.L.144-1986, SEC.19; P.L.136-2018, SEC.112.
IN Code § 22-2-12-3 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 12. Employee Benefit Plans|22-2-12-3. Payment or Refund of Wages; Release of Employer; Application of Law

Sec. 3. Nothing contained in this chapter shall affect any claim or right to any such payment or refund or part thereof as between all persons other than the employer or former employer and the trustee making such payment or refund, or the corporation accepting such stock for transfer.Formerly: Acts 1957, c.63, s.3. As amended by P.L.144-1986, SEC.20.
IN Code § 22-2-12-4 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 12. Employee Benefit Plans|22-2-12-4. Employer's Failure to Make Payments; Notice; Damages

Sec. 4. (a) This section applies to an employer who has contracted in writing to make payments to an employee welfare plan, vacation plan, health plan, dental plan, insurance plan, supplemental unemployment plan, benefit plan, profit-sharing plan, pension plan, industry plan, or any other employee plan either by agreement with an employee or an employee benefit plan group or by a collective bargaining agreement.(b) Not later than seven (7) days after failing to make a payment under an agreement covered by subsection (a), the employer shall give written notice of nonpayment to:(1) the employee on whose behalf the payment should have been made;(2) an authorized representative of such an employee;(3) an authorized representative of a union that represents such an employee;(4) the authorized representative of the benefit plan to which the payment should have been made; or(5) the trustee of the employee to which the payment should have been made.(c) An injured employee may recover double damages plus costs and attorney fees from an employer who fails to give notice under subsection (b) and who fails to make those payments described in subsection (a) on the employee's behalf. However, an employer is not liable under this section if he shows good cause for his failure to make the payments described in subsection (a) or his failure to give the written notice required in subsection (b). "Good cause" does not include the employer's financial inability to make the payments described in subsection (a).As added by Acts 1982, P.L.134, SEC.1.
IN Code § 22-2-13-0.3 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 13. Military Family Leave|22-2-13-0.3. Effect of Addition of Chapter by p.l.151-2007

Sec. 0.3. The addition of this chapter by P.L.151-2007 does not excuse noncompliance with a provision of a collective bargaining agreement or other employment benefit program or plan in effect on July 1, 2007, that is not in substantial conflict with this chapter, as added by P.L.151-2007. This chapter, as added by P.L.151-2007, does not justify an employer reducing employment benefits provided by the employer that exceed the benefits required by this chapter, as added by P.L.151-2007.As added by P.L.220-2011, SEC.362.
IN Code § 22-2-13-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 13. Military Family Leave|22-2-13-1. Application of Chapter

Sec. 1. This chapter applies to an employer that employs at least fifty (50) employees for each working day during each of at least twenty (20) calendar work weeks.As added by P.L.151-2007, SEC.3.
IN Code § 22-2-13-2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 13. Military Family Leave|22-2-13-2. "Armed Forces of the United States"

Sec. 2. As used in this chapter, "armed forces of the United States" means the active or reserve components of:(1) the Army;(2) the Navy;(3) the Air Force;(4) the Coast Guard;(5) the Marine Corps; or(6) the Merchant Marine.As added by P.L.151-2007, SEC.3.
IN Code § 22-2-13-2.5 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 13. Military Family Leave|22-2-13-2.5. "Child"

Sec. 2.5. As used in this chapter, "child" means a biological child, adopted child, foster child, or stepchild.As added by P.L.45-2009, SEC.1.
IN Code § 22-2-13-3 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 13. Military Family Leave|22-2-13-3. "Employee"

Sec. 3. As used in this chapter, "employee" means a person employed or permitted to work or perform services for remuneration under a contract of hire, written or oral, by an employer.As added by P.L.151-2007, SEC.3.
IN Code § 22-2-13-4 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 13. Military Family Leave|22-2-13-4. "Employer"

Sec. 4. As used in this chapter, the term "employer" includes the state and political subdivisions of the state.As added by P.L.151-2007, SEC.3.
IN Code § 22-2-13-5 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 13. Military Family Leave|22-2-13-5. "Grandparent"

Sec. 5. As used in this chapter, "grandparent" means a biological grandparent, an adoptive grandparent, a foster grandparent, or a stepgrandparent.As added by P.L.151-2007, SEC.3. Amended by P.L.45-2009, SEC.2.
IN Code § 22-2-13-6 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 13. Military Family Leave|22-2-13-6. "Health Care Benefits"

Sec. 6. As used in this chapter, "health care benefits" means employer provided health coverage, including coverage for medical care, prescription drugs, vision care, medical savings accounts, or any other health related benefit.As added by P.L.151-2007, SEC.3.
IN Code § 22-2-13-7 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 13. Military Family Leave|22-2-13-7. "Active Duty"

Sec. 7. As used in this chapter, "active duty" means full-time service on active duty orders in:(1) the armed forces of the United States; or(2) the National Guard;for a period that exceeds eighty-nine (89) consecutive calendar days.As added by P.L.151-2007, SEC.3.
IN Code § 22-2-13-8 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 13. Military Family Leave|22-2-13-8. "National Guard"

Sec. 8. As used in this chapter, "National Guard" means:(1) the Indiana Army National Guard; or(2) the Indiana Air National Guard.As added by P.L.151-2007, SEC.3.
IN Code § 22-2-13-9 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 13. Military Family Leave|22-2-13-9. "Parent"

Sec. 9. As used in this chapter, "parent" means:(1) a biological father or mother;(2) an adoptive father or mother;(3) a court appointed guardian or custodian;(4) a foster parent; or(5) a stepparent.As added by P.L.151-2007, SEC.3. Amended by P.L.45-2009, SEC.3.
IN Code § 22-2-13-10 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 13. Military Family Leave|22-2-13-10. "Sibling"

Sec. 10. As used in this chapter, "sibling" means:(1) a biological brother or sister;(2) an adoptive brother or sister;(3) a foster brother or sister; or(4) a stepbrother or stepsister.As added by P.L.151-2007, SEC.3. Amended by P.L.45-2009, SEC.4.
IN Code § 22-2-13-11 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 13. Military Family Leave|22-2-13-11. Eligibility; Leave Amount; Use of Other Paid Leave

Sec. 11. (a) An employee who:(1) has been employed by an employer for at least twelve (12) months;(2) has worked at least one thousand five hundred (1,500) hours during the twelve (12) month period immediately preceding the day the leave begins; and(3) is the spouse, parent, grandparent, child, or sibling of a person who is ordered to active duty;is entitled to an unpaid leave of absence as provided in subsection (b).(b) An employee may take a leave of absence during one (1) or more of the following periods:(1) During the thirty (30) days before active duty orders are in effect.(2) During a period in which the person ordered to active duty is on leave while active duty orders are in effect.(3) During the thirty (30) days after the active duty orders are terminated.(c) The leave of absence allowed each calendar year under subsection (a) may not exceed a total of ten (10) working days.(d) An eligible employee may elect, or an employer may require the employee, to substitute any earned paid vacation leave, personal leave, or other paid leave, except for paid medical or sick leave, available to the employee for leave provided under this chapter for any part of the ten (10) day period of such leave.As added by P.L.151-2007, SEC.3. Amended by P.L.45-2009, SEC.5.
IN Code § 22-2-13-12 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 13. Military Family Leave|22-2-13-12. Employee Notice; Employer Verification

Sec. 12. (a) An employee who wants to take a leave of absence under this chapter shall provide written notice, including a copy of the active duty orders if available, to the employee's employer of the date the leave will begin. An employee shall give at least thirty (30) days notice before the date on which the employee intends to begin the leave, unless the active duty orders are issued less than thirty (30) days before the date the requested leave is to begin.(b) An employer may require verification of an employee's eligibility for the leave. If an employee fails to provide verification required under this subsection, an employer may consider the employee's absence from employment unexcused.As added by P.L.151-2007, SEC.3.
IN Code § 22-2-13-13 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 13. Military Family Leave|22-2-13-13. Employee Post-Leave Restoration to Same or Equivalent Position

Sec. 13. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), after an employee takes a leave of absence under this chapter, an employee must be restored to:(1) the position that the employee held before the leave; or(2) a position equivalent to the position that the employee held before the leave, with equivalent seniority, pay, benefits, and other terms and conditions of employment.(b) An employer is not required to restore an employee to a position described in subsection (a) if the employer proves that the reason that the employee was not restored to the position is unrelated to the employee's exercise of the employee's rights under this chapter.As added by P.L.151-2007, SEC.3.
IN Code § 22-2-13-14 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 13. Military Family Leave|22-2-13-14. Continuation of Employee Health Care Benefits

Sec. 14. An employer shall permit an employee who is taking a leave of absence under this chapter to continue the employee's health care benefits at the employee's expense.As added by P.L.151-2007, SEC.3.
IN Code § 22-2-13-15 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 13. Military Family Leave|22-2-13-15. Employer Noninterference With Employee Rights

Sec. 15. An employer shall not interfere with, restrain, or deny the exercise of or the attempt to exercise any right provided under this chapter.As added by P.L.151-2007, SEC.3.
IN Code § 22-2-13-16 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 13. Military Family Leave|22-2-13-16. Remedies

Sec. 16. (a) An employee may bring a civil action at law to enforce this chapter.(b) A circuit court, superior court, or probate court may:(1) enjoin any act or practice that violates this chapter; and(2) order any other equitable relief that is just and proper under the circumstances to redress the violation of or to enforce this chapter.As added by P.L.151-2007, SEC.3. Amended by P.L.84-2016, SEC.94.
IN Code § 22-2-14-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 14. Employee Breaks|22-2-14-1. "Employer"

Sec. 1. As used in this chapter, "employer" means a person or entity that employs twenty-five (25) or more employees.As added by P.L.13-2008, SEC.4.
IN Code § 22-2-14-2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 14. Employee Breaks|22-2-14-2. Employer Provide Private Location Where Employees Can Express Milk; Employer Provide Cold Storage for Expressed Milk; Employer Not Liable

Sec. 2. (a) To the extent reasonably possible, an employer shall provide a private location, other than a toilet stall, where an employee can express the employee's breast milk in privacy during any period away from the employee's assigned duties.(b) To the extent reasonably possible, an employer shall:(1) provide a refrigerator or other cold storage space for keeping milk that has been expressed; or(2) allow the employee to provide the employee's own portable cold storage device for keeping milk that has been expressed until the end of the employee's work day.(c) Except in cases of willful misconduct, gross negligence, or bad faith, an employer is not liable for any harm caused by or arising from either of the following that occur on the employer's premises:(1) The expressing of an employee's breast milk.(2) The storage of expressed milk.As added by P.L.13-2008, SEC.4.
IN Code § 22-2-15-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 15. Guidelines and Procedures for Investigating Questions and Complaints Concerning Employee Classification|22-2-15-1. "Department"

Sec. 1. As used in this chapter, "department" refers to the department of labor created by IC 22-1-1-1.As added by P.L.110-2010, SEC.22.