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# There is a biblical prohibition for an employer not to pay his workers on time.<ref>Vayikra 19:13, Rambam (Lavin 238)</ref> | # There is a biblical prohibition for an employer not to pay his workers on time.<ref>Vayikra 19:13, Rambam (Lavin 238)</ref> | ||
# If the worker doesn't ask for the payment there's no prohibition for the employer to delay paying.<ref> | # If the worker doesn't ask for the payment there's no prohibition for the employer to delay paying.<ref>Shulchan Aruch CM 339:10</ref> However, some say that there is a rabbinic prohibition to delay even in such a case.<ref>Halachos of Other People's Money (p. 111) quoting the Ahavat Chesed</ref> | ||
# According to the Torah law, a daytime worker should be paid before the end of the following night and a nighttime worker should be paid before the end of the next day.<ref>Bava Metsia 110b, Rambam (Lavin 238)</ref> | # According to the Torah law, a daytime worker should be paid before the end of the following night and a nighttime worker should be paid before the end of the next day.<ref>Bava Metsia 110b, Rambam (Lavin 238)</ref> | ||
==Sources== | ==Sources== | ||
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Latest revision as of 09:04, 18 November 2015
Paying Workers on Time
- There is a biblical prohibition for an employer not to pay his workers on time.[1]
- If the worker doesn't ask for the payment there's no prohibition for the employer to delay paying.[2] However, some say that there is a rabbinic prohibition to delay even in such a case.[3]
- According to the Torah law, a daytime worker should be paid before the end of the following night and a nighttime worker should be paid before the end of the next day.[4]
