Liberty Mut. Fire Ins. Co. v. Old Republic Gen. Ins. Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 149, § 148 “requires] that employers pay employees within a week of the weekly or biweekly pay period during which wages were earned”
• explaining that employer could not treat employee’s earned wages advances on customer payments and deduct “chargebacks” when customers paid late
• stating that an agreement for an employee to bear the cost of their employer’s insurance violates the Wage Act because it effectively reduces wages
• “The Wage Act requires an employer to pay the wages earned to an employee within a fixed period of days after the end of a pay period.”
• when statute lists elements in a series, general phrases construed as restricted to elements similar to specific elements listed
• Normally, “[w]here an employee has completed the labor, service, or performance required of him . . . he has ‘earned’ his wage.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).