Section 408.472 - Payment of wages; time; regularly scheduled weekly or biweekly payday; monthly pay period; overtime earnings during month of December; frequency of wage payments(1) Subject to subsections (2), (3), and (4), an employer shall pay the following to an employee:(a) On or before the first day of each calendar month, the wages earned by the employee during the first 15 days of the preceding calendar month.(b) On or before the fifteenth day of each calendar month, the wages earned by the employee during the preceding calendar month from the sixteenth day through the last day.(2) An employer shall pay to an individual engaged in any phase of the hand harvesting of crops all wages earned in a week by the individual on or before the second day following the work week unless another method of payment is agreed upon by written contract.(3) An employer who has established a regularly scheduled weekly or biweekly payday is in compliance with subsection (1) if both of the following conditions are met: (a) Wages are paid to the employee on the established regularly recurring payday.(b) The payday occurs on or before the fourteenth day following the end of the work period in which the wages are earned.(4) An employer who has established a regularly scheduled monthly pay period is in compliance with subsection (1) if the employer pays to the employee, within 15 days after the end of a monthly pay period, all wages earned during the monthly pay period.(5) For employees' overtime earnings earned during the month of December that would, in compliance with this section, be paid to the employees after the sixteenth of December, an employer is in compliance with this section if both of the following conditions are met:(a) Employees receive all their wages, except overtime, for the month of December on or before the employees' regularly scheduled payday.(b) All overtime wages earned during the month of December are paid on or before the next regularly scheduled payday following the payday in which the overtime would otherwise be paid.(6) An employer may pay wages more often than required by this section.Amended by 2018, Act 170,s 1, eff. 9/2/2018.1978, Act 390, Imd. Eff. 8/1/1978.