Printable Format44-316. Payment of undisputed wages; remedies retained. (a) In case of a dispute over the amount of wages due, the employer shall pay, without conditions and no later than the regular payday next following the concession, all wages, or parts thereof, conceded by him to be due, leaving to the employee all remedies he might otherwise be entitled to, including those provided under this act, as to any balance claimed.
(b) Unless payment is made by binding settlement agreement, the acceptance by an employee of a payment under this section shall not constitute a release as to the balance of his claim and any release required by an employer as a condition to payment shall be in violation of this act and shall be null and void.
History: L. 1973, ch. 204, ยง 4; July 1.
Law Review and Bar Journal References:
"See Dick and Jane Work: A Kansas Wage Payment Act Primer," Boyd A. Byers and Carolyn L. Rumfelt, 72 J.K.B.A. No. 9, 14 (2003).
CASE ANNOTATIONS
1. Section construed; employer must willfully withhold wages; employee has remedy only as to balance claimed; release on back of check violated subsection (b). Holder v. Kansas Steel Built, Inc., 224 Kan. 406, 411, 582 P.2d 244.
2. Illegal alien's employment contract is enforceable under Kansas Wage Payment Act, act not preempted by federal law. Coma Corporation v. Kansas Dept. of Labor, 283 Kan. 625, 635, 645, 154 P.3d 1080 (2007).