N.Y. LAB Law § 192
This is the official text of N.Y. LAB Law § 192, part of New York’s LAB Law — part of the compiled statutory law of New York, published by the state as "LAB Law." Browse the sections below, each linked to its official government source.
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Cash payment of wages
Official statutory text
§ 192. Cash payment of wages. 1. No employer shall without the advance\nwritten consent of any employee directly pay or deposit the net wage or\nsalary of such employee in a bank or other financial institution.\n 2. This section shall not apply to any person employed in a bona fide\nexecutive, administrative, or professional capacity whose earnings are\nin excess of one thousand three hundred dollars a week, nor to employees\nworking on a farm not connected with a factory.\n
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