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    I Need Daycare Legal Help - Not Sure Where to Post

    I live in FL. I use to work in a small daycare center owned by one lady. I quit my job August 17th without notice via email (it was that bad). I asked her to please send my final paycheck and the one she held back to me via mail. She told me to come in and sign a separation agreement and that my checks would be ready when I do that.

    I don't want to go back there and it's been so long already. I don't know if I have to sign the separation agreement or what. IS it too late to go in, sign and collect my checks? This was my first daycare job ever and it was a crappy center so idk. Am I in the wrong? I don't want to get a lawyer or anything crazy like that. I don't know what to tell the DOL.
    Tags: department of labor, dol, labor dispute
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    • Blackcat31
      • Oct 2010
      • 36124
      #2
      Originally posted by Unregistered
      I live in FL. I use to work in a small daycare center owned by one lady. I quit my job August 17th without notice via email (it was that bad). I asked her to please send my final paycheck and the one she held back to me via mail. She told me to come in and sign a separation agreement and that my checks would be ready when I do that.

      I don't want to go back there and it's been so long already. I don't know if I have to sign the separation agreement or what. IS it too late to go in, sign and collect my checks? This was my first daycare job ever and it was a crappy center so idk. Am I in the wrong? I don't want to get a lawyer or anything crazy like that. I don't know what to tell the DOL.
      Contact the DOL for your state

      Last Paycheck
      https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/wages/lastpaycheck
      Employers are not required by federal law to give former employees their final paycheck immediately. Some states, however, may require immediate payment. If the regular payday for the last pay period an employee worked has passed and the employee has not been paid, contact the Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division or the state labor department. The Department also has mechanisms in place for the recovery of back wages.
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        • Leigh
          Daycare.com Member
          • Apr 2013
          • 3814
          #3
          Originally posted by Unregistered
          I live in FL. I use to work in a small daycare center owned by one lady. I quit my job August 17th without notice via email (it was that bad). I asked her to please send my final paycheck and the one she held back to me via mail. She told me to come in and sign a separation agreement and that my checks would be ready when I do that.

          I don't want to go back there and it's been so long already. I don't know if I have to sign the separation agreement or what. IS it too late to go in, sign and collect my checks? This was my first daycare job ever and it was a crappy center so idk. Am I in the wrong? I don't want to get a lawyer or anything crazy like that. I don't know what to tell the DOL.


          All you need to tell the DOL is that you quit your job, and that you requested your final paychecks be mailed to you, and that your former employer didn't send them. Ask them to help you get your pay for the work you have already done.
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