My most recent payroll check has been post dated. Last pay period 2 people had their check bounce. We get paid on the 5th and the 20th each month. Check has been post dated 2-9. Their bank won't cash it, and mine won't even let me deposit it until the 9th and then they want to put an additional 5 day hold on it. Can my employer do this?

My employer does pays us with a post dated check. (im here in british columbia, canada) we usually get paid via checks
every Sunday and he pays us with checks dated the next day which is Monday. So no big deal really. Besides banks (most of them as far as I know, are closed on Sunday anyway). The funny thing is that on my last paycheck my employer made a mistake by making a wrong date. You see, we are paid 2x a month every Sunday right? And that Sunday was feb.28, 2010. Little did I know that my employer wrote feb.29,2010 on my check's date. I mean hello? There is no feb.29, 2010! The next leap year is feb 29, 2012. Anyway I just went to the bank and had my check cashed at a bank (coast capital). No problem at all. I got the cash in cold canadian paper. Isn't that great? I like it!! If this was in my birthplace, philippines, this would have never been allowed. I remember how strick the banks in philippines do their thing about checks. A small error here and there and they wouldn't allow you to cash, yes it's true. I had numerous headaches with my paychecks in the philippines, to think that it is a 3rd world why is their banks are even more strict/haggard than canadian banks? Hmnn I wonder...

Here's a handy little fact sheet on employment standards: http://www.earnbc.ca/?p=40 If you are in BC you might want to consider joining this group, they can be really helpful with this kind of stuff.