FINAL WAGE PAYMENT ERRORS: NO MORE SAFE HARBOR IN MASSACHUSETTS (April 2022)
While Massachusetts is uniquely employee-friendly when it comes to final wage payments, its Supreme Judicial Court just narrowed the margin of error allowed for employers to nil. In a ruling handed down on Monday, April 4, the SJC ruled that in order to comply with the Massachusetts Wage Act, employers must pay terminated employees in full on the date of termination – and that employees are automatically entitled to treble damages (three times the late