Client AlertsEmployment & LaborMassachusetts Wage Update: SJC Overturns Years of Precedent and Finds That Employers Must Automatically Pay Triple Damages if Wages are Paid Even One Day Late
By Alicia Samolis and Michael Gamboli It is well known that if a Massachusetts employer terminates an employee, the employer risks being liable for three times the amount of wages owed if payment is not made on the last day of employment. A lesser known corollary to this rule based upon Massachusetts caselaw was that...