{"id":1299,"date":"2009-07-17T22:10:27","date_gmt":"2009-07-18T02:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/?p=1299"},"modified":"2009-07-17T22:10:27","modified_gmt":"2009-07-18T02:10:27","slug":"question-of-the-week-how-quickly-must-i-pay-a-terminated-employee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/2009\/07\/question-of-the-week-how-quickly-must-i-pay-a-terminated-employee\/","title":{"rendered":"Question of the Week: How Quickly Must I Pay a Terminated Employee?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">This week\u2019s question comes from Marco, a small business owner in Massachusetts. I terminated an employee. He wants to get his paycheck before he leaves the building. How quickly must I pay a terminated employee? Answer: Under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/legis\/laws\/mgl\/149-148.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Massachusetts General Law (MGL) c. 149 \u00a7148<\/a>, \u201cany employee discharged from such employment shall be paid in full on the day of his discharge.\u201d Therefore, Massachusetts employers should pay terminated employees on the day of their termination. Contact <a href=\"mailto:info@visionpayroll.com\" target=\"_blank\">Vision Payroll<\/a> if you have any questions on paying terminated employees.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s question comes from Marco, a small business owner in Massachusetts. I terminated an employee. He wants to get his paycheck before he leaves the building. How quickly must I pay a terminated employee? Answer: Under Massachusetts General Law (MGL) c. 149 \u00a7148, \u201cany employee discharged from such employment shall be paid in full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[127,83,13,86,44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6655,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions\/6655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}