Walk It Through: The Short Paycheck
$17.00 or $16.00 an hour, sick leave by the hour worked, and small claims up to $10,000.
A line cook's first paycheck works out to less than the minimum wage for the hours on the time sheet.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One paycheck and one cook. Overtime, tipped wages, the timing of pay, and a claim to the labor department are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- Prenatal leaveTwenty hours of paid leave in any fifty-two week period for health care services related to the employee's pregnancy, separate from sick leave.
- Sick leaveLeave accruing at no less than one hour for every thirty hours worked, up to 40 hours a year, or 56 hours at an employer of one hundred or more.
- Small claimA claim for money only, up to $10,000 in the civil court of New York City, or $5,000 in a city court outside it.