60-11-18. Department may take assignment of employees' claims-- Prosecution--Joinder of actions.
The Department of Labor and Regulation may take assignments of wage claims, rights of action for penalties, provided by §§60-11-8 to 60-11-23, inclusive, not to exceed five hundred dollars in any case of any one claim without being bound by any of the technical rules with reference to the validity of such assignments. The department may prosecute actions for the collection of such claims of persons who, in the judgment of the department are entitled to the services of the department and who, in its judgment, have claims that are valid and enforceable in the courts. The department may join various claimants in one preferred claim or lien, and in case of suit to join them in one cause of action.
Source: SL 1971, ch 274, §9; SL 2008, ch 276, §88; SL 2011, ch 1 (Ex. Ord. 11-1), §33, eff. Apr. 12, 2011.
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.