Court Opinion

ID: 9506904
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-06 21:15:29.048196+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:07:10.661752
License: Public Domain

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE JAMES T. HARRISON
(dissenting):
I dissent.
I do not feel that the laws with relation to payment of wages and protection of discharged employees should be interpreted to require the Commissioner of Labor to hold a hearing upon demand. If a claim asserted by a discharged employee, upon investigation by the Commissioner, appears to be without merit I would not burden the Commissioner by requiring him to hold *79a hearing to determine what he already knows — the claim lacks merit.
Nothing is taken away from an employee, if he is not satisfied with the Commissioner’s view he can institute a suit under the statutes and if he is successful he will recover his wages, costs, penalty and attorney fees.