60-11-10. Prompt payment of wages due on separation by employer--Withholding for return of employer's property.
Whenever an employer separates an employee from the payroll, the unpaid wages or compensation of such employee are due and payable not later than the next regular stated pay day for which those hours would have normally been paid or as soon thereafter as the employee returns to the employer all property of the employer in the employee's possession.
Source: SL 1971, ch 274, §3; SL 1996, ch 302; SL 1997, ch 299, §1.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 60 - Labor and Employment
Chapter 11 - Wages, Hours And Conditions Of Employment
Section 60-11-1 - Manufacturing or mechanical occupations--Hours of labor.
Section 60-11-3 - Minimum wage--Misdemeanor--Certain employees excluded.
Section 60-11-3.2 - Annual minimum wage adjustment.
Section 60-11-4 - Minimum wage--Agreement to work for less ineffective.
Section 60-11-4.1 - Opportunity wage allowed.
Section 60-11-5 - Exemptions from minimum wage provisions.
Section 60-11-7 - Liability of employer for double damages for breach of obligation to pay wages.
Section 60-11-8 - Employers subject to wage payment requirements.
Section 60-11-9 - Monthly wage payments required--Agreed pay day--Form of payment.
Section 60-11-14 - Provisions applicable to cash wages only.
Section 60-11-15 - Employer's intentional refusal to pay wages--Misdemeanor.
Section 60-11-16 - Fraudulent claim by employee--Misdemeanor.
Section 60-11-17.1 - Reprisals because of wage complaints or proceedings prohibited.
Section 60-11-20 - Promulgation of rules.
Section 60-11-21 - Reciprocal agreements with other states for enforcement of wage claims.
Section 60-11-24 - Action removed by defendant--Plaintiff's costs and attorney fees.