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"Arkansas employers who don’t give a former employee his last paycheck by the next payday would face a possible lawsuit and be liable for paying twice the amount of the unpaid wages, under proposed legislation discussed by a legislative committee Thursday." I see this as a stupid idea myself . While I frankly doubt there is any real problem here, we have a very tough Labor Dept here, and they are well known for almost always favoring the employee in disputes. And in my experience, when there is a delay it is almost always due to disputes over unpaid employee advances or loans, or return of uniforms provided, etc. Often the only chance the employer ever has to get repaid, etc is through deducting it from the final paycheck. I'm wondering if others see this the way I do?

>>for a sole propitiator<< The only one I know of is the guy who told that parable I was talking about.

>>I do agree that employers have no rights<< "If you’ve got a business. you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen." Which is probably why employers have no rights.

In AR, workers who are fired by a corporation must be paid their last paycheck within seven days of being fired, if demanded. In all other cases, payment must be made at the regularly scheduled payday. So for a sole propitiator or partnership or LLC not taxed as a Corp, it's currently the next payday. It's also current law that you can not deduct from a paycheck any amount that would reduce pay below minimum wage, even if the employee had agreed to the deduction.. The idea that bugs me the most, though, is the idea that the amount should be doubled, in cases where there is a dispute that delays a paycheck. I do agree that employers have no rights, under current law, to withhold pay over such disputes, but this still seems like over-reaction to me.

I just received my tax return for 2011 back from the IRS. It puzzles me!!! They are questioning how many dependents I claimed. I guess it was because of my response to the question: "List all dependents?" I replied: 12 million illegal immigrants; 3 million crack heads; 42 million unemployed people on food stamps, 2 million people in over 243 prisons; Half of Mexico; and 535 persons in the U.S. House and Senate." Evidently, this was NOT an acceptable answer. I KEEP ASKING MYSELF, WHOM DID I MISS?

I have no hispanic clients nor any that play the race card! The TRUTH is not tasteless or racial. If you have a problem with such, you need to get help and get over it.

Jack, you forgot Obama and Biden! LOL ;)

MSNBC - Keith Oberman and Rachel Maddow - nobody watched them so the government gave them a welfare check in the form of advertising on their show. Tom Hollister, CA