Timing Requirements for Wage Payments in Louisiana

All Louisiana employers engaged in manufacturing, boring for oil or mining operations employing 10 or more persons, except for clerical force or salespersons, and all public service corporations, are covered under the following law:

Employees must be paid at least once every two weeks or twice during the calendar month with paydays two weeks apart whenever possible; holdover of 10 days is permitted (15 days for public service corporations).

Effective August 15, 2004, employers must inform employees at the time of hire the wages that will be paid, the method of payment, and the frequency of payment, along with any subsequent changes. Employers that do not designate a payday must pay employees on or near the sixteenth day of the month. Employers engaged in manufacturing, boring for oil and in mining, employing ten or more people, and all public service corporations are required to pay employees as often as once every two weeks or twice each calendar month. For purposes of this rule, the term employee does not include any individual employed in a bona fide executive, administrative, supervisory, or professional capacity or any employee considered exempt under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).