No assignment or pledge of wages, in any form, made or executed directly or collaterally in the payment of, or as security for, the purchase of or contract to purchase any goods, wares, or merchandise shall be valid against or binding upon any employer, or the wages of any employee in the hands of, or owing, or to become owing to such employee, unless the assignee or pledgee thereof shall, prior to the delivery of the goods, wares, or merchandise so purchased or prior to consummation of any contract to purchase the same, serve upon the employer of such assignor, or pledgor, a duly executed copy of such assignment, or pledge, or contract to purchase and obtain such employer's acceptance of notice thereof and agreement in writing to be bound by the terms of such assignment or pledge.
Structure Mississippi Code
Chapter 1 - Employer and Employee
§ 71-1-1. Occupational health and safety program
§ 71-1-17. Children under fourteen not to work in mills or factories
§ 71-1-19. Child labor in accord with school attendance
§ 71-1-21. Regulating hours of labor
§ 71-1-23. Sheriff to enforce law
§ 71-1-25. County health officer to inspect
§ 71-1-27. Misdemeanor to fail or refuse to obey order of officer
§ 71-1-29. Misdemeanor to violate child labor laws
§ 71-1-31. Certain canneries excepted
§ 71-1-37. Discounting trade checks prohibited
§ 71-1-39. Trade checks must be paid in cash
§ 71-1-41. Employee trust plan
§ 71-1-43. Income or principal of employee trust plan not to be encumbered
§ 71-1-45. Assignment or pledge of wages
§ 71-1-47. Denial or abridgment of work