Every employer doing business in this state shall, as often as semimonthly, pay to each of its employees all wages or salary earned to a day not more than eighteen (18) days prior to the date of that payment. Any employee who is absent at the time fixed for payment, or who, for any other reason, is not paid at that time, shall be paid thereafter at any time upon six (6) days’ demand. No employer subject to this section shall, by any means, secure exemption from it. Every such employee shall have a right of action against any such employer for the full amount of his wages due on each regular pay day. The provisions of this section do not apply to those individuals defined in KRS
337.010(2)(a)2.
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Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 337.020

  • Action: includes all proceedings in any court of this state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Employee: is a ny person employed by or suffered or permitted to work for an employer, except that:
    1. See Kentucky Statutes 337.010
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Wages: includes any compensation due to an employee by reason of his or her employment, including salaries, commissions, vested vacation pay, overtime pay, severance or dismissal pay, earned bonuses, and any other similar advantages agreed upon by the employer and the employee or provided to employees as an established policy. See Kentucky Statutes 337.010

Effective: July 15, 1982
History: Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 126, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1982. — Amended
1978 Ky. Acts ch. 340, sec. 2, effective June 17, 1978. — Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 576a-1.

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