60-11-9. Monthly wage payments required--Agreed pay day--Form of payment.
Every employer shall pay all wages due to employees at least once each calendar month unless otherwise provided by law, or on regular agreed pay days designated in advance by the employer, in lawful money of the United States. An employer may pay wages by check, cash, or direct deposit to the employee's bank account, unless an employer and employee agree to another form of payment.
Source: SL 1971, ch 274, §2; SL 2001, ch 291, §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.