West Virginia The WV Wage Payment and Collection Act Poster Required

W	EST 	V	IRGINIA 	D	IVISION OF 	L	ABOR 	
1900 Kanawha Boulevard East  -  State Capitol Complex –  Building 3, Room 200  - Charleston, WV 25305  
Telephone:  (304)558 -7890                        labor. wv.gov	
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WEST VIRGINIA WAGE PAYMENT  AND COLLECTION ACT  	
 
This abstract must be placed in an area accessible to all employees in accordance  with the  requirements of W. Va. 
Code §21 -5 -9.   
 
§21 -5	 REQUIRES THE EMPLOYER TO:  	
 
Pay employee wages at least twice a month, with no more than 19 days between paydays.  
 
Compensate employees for services rendered by cash, check, direct deposit, or money order, and make arrangements 
with a bank convenient to the place of employment for employees to have immediate access to their wages.   
 
When an empl oyee is discharged, quits, resigns, is laid off, or is on strike, pay the employee on or before the next regularly 
scheduled payday for all work he or she performed prior to his or her separation from employment.  
 
On separation from employment, pay an empl oyee the fringe benefits due and payable according to the time, terms, and 
conditions of an employer -employee agreement, whether verbal or written, if any.  
 
Notify employees in writing at the time of hire, or by a posted notice that is accessible to all employees, identifying the 
employer’s established work week, pay periods, regularly scheduled pay days, and employment practices and policies 
regarding vacation, sick leave and other fringe benefits, if any . 
 
Provide employees with at least 1 full pay peri od’s written notice before making any changes to an employee’s rate of 
pay, fringe benefits, the time and place for meeting payroll, or any other existing terms or conditions of employment.  
 
Furnish each employee with a written itemized statement of deduct ions withheld from his or her wages each pay period.  
 
§21 -5	 PREVENTS THE EMPLOYER FROM:  	
 
Selling goods or supplies to employees at prices higher than the current market value.  
 
Deducting more than 25% of an employee’s net earnings under a wage assignment (excluding amounts required by law 
to be withheld or paid for union or club dues, pension plans, payroll savings plans, credit unions, charities, and 
hospitalization and medical insurance).  
 
Accepting a wage assignment that does not contain the employee's  notarized signature, specify the total amount due and 
the amount to be deducted, and state that 75% of the employee's net wages are exempt from assignment.  
 
Refusing to pay wages owed, up to $800.00, to the relatives of a deceased employee.	
 	
 
 
 
              Revised  January 2018