A small corporation doing carpentry has employees who work for it. The employees are out in the field, there is not office for employees. Time sheets for the prior week are due Monday morning following the week. They can be given to a field supervisor when one is there, or faxed or emailed to the accounting office. Employees regularly turn in sheets late, or fail to turn them in without tremendous follow up from the manager. Employees have been told repeatedly that failure to turn the timsheet in timely wills result in them missing the payroll deadline, and then they will receive no paycheck that pay period, and must wait until the next. As yet, the corporation has not done this, but the situation with late turns ins gets worse. Can the Employer not issue a PAY check for an hourly employee that has failed to submit his time sheet w ithint the designated time/deadline? Can the employer wait to issue a check for a late time sheet until the next regular pay period (every 2 weeks)?

In every state where I have worked, yes they can. If the employee is aware of the rule, and given the opportunity to provide the time sheet,

If the paysheet is not handed in, because of the employee fault, and received after the dead line, then the pay can go on the next regular pay period. If it is late because of the companies or managers fault, they can not. Same issue if a person punches a time clock and does not clock one day, he would not be paid for that day, unless it was corrected prior to being turned in.

This company may not, but many companies use outside payroll companies and if sheets not received by a certain time, they just can not phsycally process.

Employers have offices and staff that must run on a schedule and if you skip a deadline they can skip cutting a ckeck. Many payroll departments and heavily computerized a doing a single check is not cost effective for them. It's their ball and they get to make the call. So how come the guys are still lagging behind if they know what's ahead for them?

I was the payroll manager at a trucking company. The deadline for the driver's paperwork was on a certain day and time. After that time I refused to honor their paperwork for that pay period and put it on the next pay period. They knew the consequences and acted accordingly after they missed a few paychecks and mama at home gave them a stern talking to. Nowadays there are a lot of companies who use outside payroll services and have to meet strict deadlines for that service to do their job properly.

Employers don't have to cater to the employees regarding paying them when deadlines are missed or ignored.