Beckman v. Kansas Department of Human Resources

How courts have described this case

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• holding employer acted willfully because the reason given for withholding wages was “an afterthought and an excuse not to pay, contrived ... with no relationship to a sincere belief ... that the wages were rightfully withheld”
• holding employer acted willfully because the reason given for withholding wages was “an afterthought and an excuse not to pay, contrived . . . with no relationship to a sincere belief . . . that the wages were rightfully withheld”
• finding employee's oral agreement to defer part of his earned wages to be illegal
• evidence supported fact finder's conclusion that violation was willful where employer's decision to withhold wages bore no relationship to a sincere belief by the employer that the wages were rightfully withheld
• court can assess penalty eight days after wages are due

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).