Q: Does a terminated employee have the right for full wage payment on the day of the termination?
Related to legislation: 820 ILCS 115/4-5. Wages include hourly rate, OT and bonuses.
A:
If your question is: Does an employee get paid the full day's wage if he is fired before the end of the workday? The answer is that the employee gets paid for his time until he got fired.
If your question is: Does an employer have to give a fired employee his final paycheck on the day he is fired? The answer is that an employer can do so, but doesn't have to do so -- he has until the next regularly scheduled payday for that employee to issue a final paycheck.
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