How to calculate Wage Backpay in Delaware

US-DE wage and backpay rules

This source-backed guide covers US-DE wage backpay SOL (Del. Code tit. 19, § 1103). It certifies only the quoted Oregon wage, overtime, final-wages, penalty-wage, and interest rules listed below; special exemptions and calculator corner cases remain outside certification unless a quoted source says otherwise.

Del. Code tit. 19, § 1103

When an employee is separated (quit, discharged, suspended, or laid off), wages become due on the later of the next regular payday or three business days after the last day worked. Failure to pay without reasonable grounds triggers liquidated damages.

Del. Code tit. 19, § 1103. Whenever an employee quits, resigns, is discharged, suspended, or laid off, the wages earned by the employee become due and payable by the employer on the later of the following: a. The next date the wages would be paid through the last day worked under the employer's regular pay cycle as if the employment had not stopped. b. Three business days after the last day worked.

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Sources

• Del. Code tit. 19, § 1103 — Employees separated from the payroll before regular payday; damages for failure to pay wages

All sources are official primary law published by delcode.delaware.gov.

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