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IN Code § 22-2-2-11 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 2. Minimum Wage|22-2-2-11. Violations

Sec. 11. (a) An employer or his agent who:(1) discharges or otherwise discriminates in regard to tenure or condition of employment against any employee because the employee has:(A) instituted or participated in the institution of any action to recover wages under this chapter; or(B) demanded the payment of wages under this chapter;(2) pays or agrees to pay any employee less than the minimum wage prescribed by section 4 of this chapter; or(3) fails to keep records required by section 8 of this chapter;commits a Class C infraction.(b) An employer or the employer's agent who knowingly or intentionally violates section 4 or 8 of this chapter commits a Class A infraction.(c) An employer or the employer's agent who violates section 4 of this chapter, having a prior unrelated judgment for a violation of section 4 of this chapter, commits a Class B misdemeanor.(d) An employer or the employer's agent who violates section 8 of this chapter, having a prior unrelated judgment for a violation of section 8 of this chapter, commits a Class B misdemeanor.Formerly: Acts 1965, c.134, s.11. As amended by Acts 1978, P.L.2, SEC.2202; P.L.37-1985, SEC.28; P.L.133-1990, SEC.3.
IN Code § 22-2-2-12 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 2. Minimum Wage|22-2-2-12. Discharging Persons Within Four Weeks; Offense

Sec. 12. An employer who consistently discharges persons within four (4) weeks of their employment and replaces the discharged person without work stoppage commits a Class A infraction.Formerly: Acts 1965, c.134, s.14; Acts 1967, c.153, s.4. As amended by Acts 1977, P.L.259, SEC.3; Acts 1978, P.L.2, SEC.2203; P.L.133-1990, SEC.4.
IN Code § 22-2-2-13 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 2. Minimum Wage|22-2-2-13. Collective Bargaining Agreements; Applicability

Sec. 13. The equal pay provisions of section 4 of this chapter shall not apply to employees covered by a bona fide collective bargaining agreement in effect on March 2, 1965, until the termination of such collective bargaining agreement or July 1, 1968, whichever shall occur first.Formerly: Acts 1965, c.134, s.15; Acts 1967, c.153, s.5. As amended by P.L.144-1986, SEC.5.
IN Code § 22-2-4-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 4. Regulation of Wage Payments|22-2-4-1. "Financial Institution" Defined; Payment; Void Contracts; Exceptions

Sec. 1. (a) As used in this section, "financial institution" means a financial institution regulated by an agency of the United States or any state.(b) Every corporation, limited liability company, association, company, firm, or person engaged in Indiana in mining coal, ore, or other mineral, quarrying stone, or in manufacturing iron, steel, lumber, staves, heading barrels, brick, tile, machinery, agricultural or mechanical implements, or any article of merchandise shall pay each employee of the corporation, limited liability company, company, association, firm, or person, if demanded, at least every two (2) weeks, the amount due the employee for labor. The payments shall be made in lawful money of the United States, by negotiable check, draft, or money order, or by electronic transfer to the financial institution designated by the employee.(c) Any contract in violation of this section is void. This section does not apply where employees and employers by mutual agreement or contract have provided for payments on a weekly basis.Formerly: Acts 1911, c.68, s.1; Acts 1971, P.L.349, SEC.1. As amended by P.L.216-1989, SEC.1; P.L.8-1993, SEC.271.
IN Code § 22-2-4-2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 4. Regulation of Wage Payments|22-2-4-2. Scrip; Offense

Sec. 2. A person who publishes, issues, or circulates any check, card, or other paper, which is not commercial paper payable at a fixed time in any bank in this state, at its full face value, in lawful money of the United States, with eight percent (8%) interest, or by bank check or currency issued by authority of the United States government, to his employee in payment for any work done or for any labor contracted to be done commits a Class C infraction.Formerly: Acts 1911, c.68, s.2. As amended by Acts 1978, P.L.2, SEC.2204.
IN Code § 22-2-4-3 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 4. Regulation of Wage Payments|22-2-4-3. Merchandise or Supplies; Sale to Employees at Higher Price

Sec. 3. It is a Class C infraction for a person to knowingly sell to his employee any merchandise or supplies at a higher price than the merchandise or supplies are sold to others for cash.Formerly: Acts 1911, c.68, s.3. As amended by Acts 1978, P.L.2, SEC.2205.
IN Code § 22-2-4-4 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 4. Regulation of Wage Payments|22-2-4-4. Failure to Pay; Fines and Penalties; Damages

Sec. 4. Every corporation, limited liability company, company, association, firm, or person who shall fail for ten (10) days after demand of payment has been made to pay employees for their labor, in conformity with the provisions of this chapter, shall be liable to such employee for the full value of his labor, to which shall be added a penalty of one dollar ($1) for each succeeding day, not exceeding double the amount of wages due, and a reasonable attorney's fee, to be recovered in a civil action and collectable without relief.Formerly: Acts 1911, c.68, s.4. As amended by P.L.144-1986, SEC.6; P.L.8-1993, SEC.272.
IN Code § 22-2-4-6 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 4. Regulation of Wage Payments|22-2-4-6. Liens for Work; Application of Law

Sec. 6. This chapter shall not in any way affect the liens of laborers, as secured to them on April 21, 1911, by the laws of this state.Formerly: Acts 1911, c.68, s.6. As amended by P.L.144-1986, SEC.7.
IN Code § 22-2-5-0.5 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 5. Frequency of Wage Payments|22-2-5-0.5. "Business Day"

Sec. 0.5. As used in this chapter, "business day" means a day other than Saturday, Sunday, or a legal holiday (as defined in IC 1-1-9-1).As added by P.L.51-2007, SEC.1.
IN Code § 22-2-5-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 5. Frequency of Wage Payments|22-2-5-1. Payment; Voluntarily Leaving Employment

Sec. 1. (a) Every person, firm, corporation, limited liability company, or association, their trustees, lessees, or receivers appointed by any court, doing business in Indiana, shall pay each employee at least semimonthly or biweekly, if requested, the amount due the employee. The payment shall be made in lawful money of the United States, by negotiable check, draft, or money order, or by electronic transfer to the financial institution designated by the employee. Any contract in violation of this subsection is void.(b) Payment shall be made for all wages earned to a date not more than ten (10) business days prior to the date of payment. However, this subsection does not prevent payments being made at shorter intervals than specified in this subsection, nor repeal any law providing for payments at shorter intervals. However, if an employee voluntarily leaves employment, either permanently or temporarily, the employer shall not be required to pay the employee an amount due the employee until the next usual and regular day for payment of wages, as established by the employer. If an employee leaves employment voluntarily, and without the employee's whereabouts or address being known to the employer, the employer is not subject to section 2 of this chapter until:(1) ten (10) business days have elapsed after the employee has made a demand for the wages due the employee; or(2) the employee has furnished the employer with the employee's address where the wages may be sent or forwarded.Formerly: Acts 1933, c.47, s.1; Acts 1971, P.L.350, SEC.1. As amended by P.L.216-1989, SEC.2; P.L.8-1993, SEC.273; P.L.51-2007, SEC.2.
IN Code § 22-2-5-1.1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 5. Frequency of Wage Payments|22-2-5-1.1. Employees Eligible for Overtime Compensation; Exemption From Ic 22-2-5-1

Sec. 1.1. Salaried employees who are eligible for overtime compensation under the Fair Labor Standards Act (29 U.S.C. 201 et seq.) are specifically exempted from section 1 of this chapter.As added by P.L.143-1988, SEC.1.
IN Code § 22-2-5-2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 5. Frequency of Wage Payments|22-2-5-2. Failure to Pay; Damages; Actions for Recovery

Sec. 2. Every such person, firm, corporation, limited liability company, or association who shall fail to make payment of wages to any such employee as provided in section 1 of this chapter shall be liable to the employee for the amount of unpaid wages, and the amount may be recovered in any court having jurisdiction of a suit to recover the amount due to the employee. The court shall order as costs in the case a reasonable fee for the plaintiff's attorney and court costs. In addition, if the court in any such suit determines that the person, firm, corporation, limited liability company, or association that failed to pay the employee as provided in section 1 of this chapter was not acting in good faith, the court shall order, as liquidated damages for the failure to pay wages, that the employee be paid an amount equal to two (2) times the amount of wages due the employee.Formerly: Acts 1933, c.47, s.2. As amended by P.L.144-1986, SEC.8; P.L.8-1993, SEC.274; P.L.193-2015, SEC.1.
IN Code § 22-2-5-3 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 5. Frequency of Wage Payments|22-2-5-3. Agricultural Workers; Criminal Offenders; Exemptions

Sec. 3. The following shall be specifically exempt from the provisions of this chapter:(1) Farmers and those engaged in the business of agriculture and horticulture.(2) 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.Formerly: Acts 1933, c.47, s.3. As amended by P.L.144-1986, SEC.9; P.L.223-2013, SEC.5.
IN Code § 22-2-6-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 6. Wage Deductions|22-2-6-1. Definitions

Sec. 1. (a) Any direction given by an employee to an employer to make a deduction from the wages to be earned by said employee, after said direction is given, shall constitute an assignment of the wages of said employee.(b) For the purpose of this chapter, the term "employer" shall also include the state and any political subdivision of the state.Formerly: Acts 1945, c.183, s.1; Acts 1965, c.301, s.1. As amended by P.L.144-1986, SEC.10; P.L.143-1988, SEC.2.
IN Code § 22-2-6-3 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 6. Wage Deductions|22-2-6-3. Validation of Deductions

Sec. 3. (a) All deductions made before July 1, 1988, by an employer from the wages of an employee, at the request of the employee, or without the objection of the employee, provided the amount so deducted was either retained by the employer and credited upon an indebtedness owing to the employer by the employee, or paid by the employer in accordance with the request of the employee, or without the employee's objection, are hereby legalized, and no action shall be brought or maintained against the employer to recover from the employer the amount so retained or paid.(b) All deductions made before the effective date of this subsection, as added by SEA 99-2019, by an employer from the wages of an employee for the rental of uniforms, shirts, pants, or other job-related clothing, pursuant to an agreement that meets the requirements of section 2(a)(1) and 2(a)(2) of this chapter, provided the amount so deducted was either:(1) retained by the employer and credited upon an indebtedness owing to the employer by the employee; or(2) paid by the employer;are hereby legalized, and no action shall be brought or maintained against the employer to recover from the employer the amount so retained or paid.Formerly: Acts 1945, c.183, s.4. As amended by P.L.143-1988, SEC.4; P.L.147-2019, SEC.2.
IN Code § 22-2-6-4 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 6. Wage Deductions|22-2-6-4. Overpayment by Employer

Sec. 4. (a) If an employer has overpaid an employee, the employer may deduct from the wages of the employee the amount of the overpayment. A deduction by an employer for reimbursement of an overpayment of wages previously made to an employee is not a fine under IC 22-2-8-1 or an assignment of wages under section 2 of this chapter. An employer must give an employee two (2) weeks notice before the employer may deduct, under this section, any overpayment of wages from the employee's wages.(b) An employer may not deduct from an employee's wages an amount in dispute under IC 22-2-9-3.(c) The amount of a wage deduction made by an employer under subsection (a) is limited to the following:(1) Except as provided in subdivision (2), the maximum part of the aggregate disposable earnings of an employee for any work week that is subjected to an employer deduction for overpayment may not exceed the lesser of:(A) twenty-five percent (25%) of the employee's disposable earnings for that week; or(B) the amount by which the employee's disposable earnings for that week exceed thirty (30) times the federal minimum hourly wage prescribed by 29 U.S.C. 206(a)(1) in effect at the time the earnings are payable.In the case of earnings for a pay period other than a week, the earnings must be computed upon a multiple of the federal minimum hourly wage equivalent to thirty (30) times the federal minimum hourly wage as prescribed in this section.(2) If a single gross wage overpayment is equal to ten (10) times the employee's gross wages earned due to an inadvertent misplacement of a decimal point, the entire overpayment may be deducted immediately.As added by P.L.215-1995, SEC.1.
IN Code § 22-2-7-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 7. Assignment of Wages|22-2-7-1. Wage Broker Defined; Employee Direct Deposit or Commission Payments by Insurer; Applicability of Wage Assignment Provisions

Sec. 1. (a) Any person, company, corporation, limited liability company, or association loaning money directly or indirectly to any employee or wage earner, except the employer of the employee, upon the security of or in consideration of any assignment of the wages or salary of such employee or wage earner shall be defined and held to be a wage broker and subject to the provisions of this chapter.(b) A direct deposit made by electronic funds transfer or other method to an employee's account in a financial institution as agreed to by the employer and the employee does not constitute an assignment of wages subject to this chapter.(c) An assignment or pledge of, or a grant of a security interest in, a contractual right of a person to receive commissions payable directly or indirectly by an insurer (as defined in IC 27-1-2-3) does not constitute an assignment of wages subject to this chapter.Formerly: Acts 1909, c.34, s.1. As amended by P.L.144-1986, SEC.11; P.L.143-1988, SEC.5; P.L.216-1989, SEC.3; P.L.8-1993, SEC.275; P.L.116-1994, SEC.1.
IN Code § 22-2-7-2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 7. Assignment of Wages|22-2-7-2. Amount of Assignment; Post-Dating

Sec. 2. No assignment of his or her wages or salary by any employee or wage earner to any wage broker or any other person for his benefit shall be valid or enforceable, nor shall any employer or debtor recognize or honor such assignment for any purpose whatever, unless it be for a fixed and definite part of the wages or salary earned or to be earned during a period not exceeding thirty (30) days immediately following the date of the assignment. Any assignment which shall be post-dated or dated on any other date than that of its actual execution shall be void and of no effect for any purpose whatever.Formerly: Acts 1909, c.34, s.2.
IN Code § 22-2-7-3 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 7. Assignment of Wages|22-2-7-3. Interest; Rates and Charges

Sec. 3. No wage broker shall ask, demand or receive, either as compensation or interest, or in any other manner, directly or indirectly, any compensation or interest for the use of money advanced or loaned by him to any employee or wage earner in excess of the rate of eight per cent (8%) per year, and said compensation or rate of interest shall be computed upon the amount actually advanced to and received by the borrower, and no commission, compensation or charges in addition to the interest above named shall be asked, demanded or received by said wage broker or any other person for making or securing said advancement or loan.Formerly: Acts 1909, c.34, s.3.
IN Code § 22-2-7-4 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 7. Assignment of Wages|22-2-7-4. Married Persons; Consent; Exemptions

Sec. 4. (a) No assignment of wages by a married person who is living with the person's spouse residing in Indiana to any wage broker shall be valid or enforceable without the consent of the spouse, evidenced by the spouse's signature to said assignment, executed and acknowledged before a notary public or other officer empowered to take acknowledgments of conveyances. No wage broker or person connected with the married person directly or indirectly shall be authorized to take any such acknowledgment.(b) This chapter shall not apply to any deduction from the wages of any employee of such employer, which deduction is made for the purpose of applying the same to any account of such employee in any credit union or any nonprofit organization of employees of such employer organized under any law of this state or of the United States.Formerly: Acts 1909, c.34, s.4; Acts 1945, c.250, s.1; Acts 1955, c.278, s.1; Acts 1957, c.303, s.1; Acts 1975, P.L.111, SEC.2. As amended by P.L.143-1988, SEC.6.
IN Code § 22-2-7-5 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 7. Assignment of Wages|22-2-7-5. Notice to Employer

Sec. 5. No assignment of wages shall be valid or enforceable unless notice in writing of the same, accompanied by a copy of the assignment, shall be given to the employer or debtor within ten (10) days from the date of its execution.Formerly: Acts 1909, c.34, s.5. As amended by P.L.143-1988, SEC.7.
IN Code § 22-2-7-6 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 7. Assignment of Wages|22-2-7-6. Amount of Loan

Sec. 6. Every purchase of a wage broker of an assignment of the wages of any employee or wage earner shall be held and considered to be a loan in the sum and of the amount actually paid to and received by such employee or wage earner.Formerly: Acts 1909, c.34, s.6. As amended by P.L.143-1988, SEC.8.
IN Code § 22-2-7-7 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 7. Assignment of Wages|22-2-7-7. Violations

Sec. 7. A person who recklessly violates this chapter commits a Class B misdemeanor.Formerly: Acts 1909, c.34, s.7. As amended by Acts 1978, P.L.2, SEC.2206.
IN Code § 22-2-7-8 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 7. Assignment of Wages|22-2-7-8. Forfeitures

Sec. 8. Any note, bill, or other evidence of indebtedness and any assignment of wages or salary given to or received by any wage broker or any other person in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter shall be null and void and of no effect; and upon conviction, any and all moneys advanced or loaned by said wage broker in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter and all interest thereon shall be forfeited.Formerly: Acts 1909, c.34, s.8. As amended by P.L.144-1986, SEC.12.
IN Code § 22-2-8-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 8. Deduction From Wage Payments|22-2-8-1. Fine of Employee by Employer Prohibited

Sec. 1. It is unlawful for any employer to assess a fine on any pretext against any employee and retain the same or any part thereof from his wages. An employer who violates this section commits a Class C infraction.Formerly: Acts 1899, c.124, s.3. As amended by Acts 1978, P.L.2, SEC.2207; Acts 1981, P.L.209, SEC.1.
IN Code § 22-2-8-3 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 8. Deduction From Wage Payments|22-2-8-3. Enforcement

Sec. 3. It is hereby made the duty of the commissioner of labor to enforce the provisions of this chapter by the processes of the courts, and in the name of the state; and, upon his failure so to do, any citizen of the state is hereby authorized to do the same in the name of the state.Formerly: Acts 1899, c.124, s.6. As amended by Acts 1981, P.L.209, SEC.2.
IN Code § 22-2-9-0.1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 9. Wage Claims|22-2-9-0.1. Application of Certain Amendments to Chapter

Sec. 0.1. The amendments made to section 5 of this chapter by P.L.165-2007 apply to wage claims filed with the commissioner of labor after June 30, 2007.As added by P.L.220-2011, SEC.361.
IN Code § 22-2-9-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 9. Wage Claims|22-2-9-1. Definitions

Sec. 1. Whenever used in this chapter:(a) The term "employer" means and includes every person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, limited liability company, receiver, or other officer of any court of this state, and any agent or officer of any of the above mentioned classes, employing any person in this state.(b) The term "wages" means all amounts at which the labor or service rendered is recompensed, whether the amount is fixed or ascertained on a time, task, piece, or commission basis, or in any other method of calculating such amount.Formerly: Acts 1939, c.95, s.1. As amended by P.L.144-1986, SEC.13; P.L.8-1993, SEC.276.
IN Code § 22-2-9-2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 2. Wages, Hours, and Benefits|Chapter 9. Wage Claims|22-2-9-2. Discharge of Employee; Unpaid Wages; Payment; Labor Disputes

Sec. 2. (a) Whenever any employer separates any employee from the pay-roll, the unpaid wages or compensation of such employee shall become due and payable at regular pay day for pay period in which separation occurred: Provided, however, That this provision shall not apply to railroads in the payment by them to their employees.(b) In the event of the suspension of work, as the result of an industrial dispute, the wages and compensation earned and unpaid at the time of such suspension shall become due and payable at the next regular pay day, including, without abatement or reduction, all amounts due all persons whose work has been suspended as a result of such industrial dispute.Formerly: Acts 1939, c.95, s.2; Acts 1969, c.62, s.1.