here is the statement of my contract, but number has been changed.

"Annual base salary of thirty-six thousand dollars ($36,000), payable in equal bi-monthly payments; 7th and 23rd of every month which are the payroll dates."

What happened is on my one week notice states effective May 13 2005, and when I receive my payment on May 23rd, its short of couple hundred dollars. The verbal explaination they gave me is because I did not go to office and work on May 14th and May 15th, so they deduct my paycheck. May 13th is my last day in the office, but May 14th and 15th is weekend, how can I go to office and work? I am writing this because they do not give me the deduction slip. Is the deduction slip required by law in this case? They can just deduct my paycheck like this?

Not knowing the type of job you have, I cannot say whether working the weekend is normal or not and whether withholding that pay is valid. Maybe if you are working shifts and are an employee going forward, you are paid for that inclusive, but your last day was before the weekend, so that was not included in your final pay. My suggestion is to write in and contest the withholding. Then contact the California Department of Labor, divison dealing with wages, and file a wage claim. I was trying to get the link, but the site must be busy since I could not open it up after multiple tries.

Not knowing the type of job you have, I cannot say whether working the weekend is normal or not and whether withholding that pay is valid. Maybe if you are working shifts and are an employee going forward, you are paid for that inclusive, but your last day was before the weekend, so that was not included in your final pay. My suggestion is to write in and contest the withholding. Then contact the California Department of Labor, divison dealing with wages, and file a wage claim. I was trying to get the link, but the site must be busy since I could not open it up after multiple tries.

Hi My job is Monday to Friday regular office job. Also I did work on last day which is the 13th. i called them and requested explaination in writing, but they just wouldnt do that. Can I request them to give the explaination in writing?

Yes need to issue an explanation in writing for any and all deductions from you checks.

What if I were to walk up while you were paying for your coffee/breakfast and just took the twenty out of you hand and just walked off without saying anything?

Ulawlabor, this post is from back in May. Please do not respond to posts that are no longer current.

If you have a question about the law that is discussed in the thread, I have no problem with your re-opening the thread to ask it, and the OP is always free to do an update, but I would prefer people not re-open closed threads in order to provide an answer to a poster who is almost certainly no longer looking for responses.

Sorry cbg. Need to pay more attention to the dates.

Not a problem. You're by no means the first to do so. ;)