West Virginia Code
Chapter 21. Labor
Article 5. Wage Payment and Collection

§21-5-1. Definitions - NOTE: West Virginia Code §21-5-1 was amended by two bills...

§21-5-2. Semimonthly Payment of Wages by Railroads - Every railroad company, authorized to do business by the laws...

§21-5-3. Payment of Wages by Employers Other Than Railroads; Assignments of Wages - (a) Every person, firm, or corporation doing business in this...

§21-5-4. Cash Orders; Employees Separated From Payroll Before Paydays; Employer Provided Property - (a) In lieu of lawful money of the United States,...

§21-5-4a. Safe Harbor - (a) An employee, in bringing an action for the underpayment...

§21-5-5. Coercion of Employees to Purchase Merchandise in Payment of Wages; Sale of Merchandise for More Than Prevailing Cash Value - If any corporation, company, firm or person shall coerce or...

§21-5-5a. Definitions - As used in sections five-b, five-c and five-d of this...

§21-5-5b. Employer Limitations on Use of Detection of Deception Devices or Instruments; Exceptions - No employer may require or request either directly or indirectly,...

§21-5-5c. License Required for Psychophysiological Detection of Deception Examiners; Qualifications; Promulgation of Rules Governing Administration of Psychophysiological Detection of Deception Examinations - (a) No person, firm, or corporation shall administer a psychophysiological...

§21-5-5d. Penalties; Cause of Action - (a) It shall be a misdemeanor to administer or interpret...

§21-5-6. Refusal to Pay Wages or Redeem Orders - If any person, firm or corporation shall refuse for the...

§21-5-7. Prime Contractor"s Responsibility for Wages and Benefits - (a) Whenever any person, firm, or corporation shall contract with...

§21-5-8. Checkweighman Where Wages Depend on Production - Where the amount of wages paid to any of the...

§21-5-8a. Deceased Employees - In the event of the death of any employee, wages...

§21-5-9. Notification, Posting and Records - Every person, firm and corporation shall: (1) Notify his employees...

§21-5-10. Provisions of Law May Not Be Waived by Agreement - Except as provided in section thirteen, no provision of this...

§21-5-11. Administrative Enforcement - (a) The commissioner shall enforce and administer the provisions of...

§21-5-12. Employees' Remedies - (a) Any person whose wages have not been paid in...

§21-5-13. Rules and Regulations - The commissioner shall make rules and regulations to the extent...

§21-5-14. Employer’s Bond for Wages and Benefits - (a) Bond required. — With the exception of those who...

§21-5-14a. Insufficiency of Bond; Manner of Distribution - In the event that the claim of any employee or...

§21-5-15. Violations; Cease and Desist Orders and Appeals Therefrom; Criminal Penalties - (a) Any person, firm or corporation who knowingly and willfully...

§21-5-16. Contractors and Subcontractors to Notify Commissioner - Whenever a person, firm or corporation (hereinafter referred to in...

§21-5-17. Employers Prohibited From Discharging Employees for Time Lost as Volunteer Firemen or Emergency Medical Service Attendant - No employer may terminate, or use any disciplinary action against,...

§21-5-18. Employers Prohibited From Discharging Employees for Time Lost as Emergency Medical Service Personnel - No employer may terminate an employee who is a member...