Under the Nebraska Wage Payment and Collection Act an employee or former employee cannot bring a claim for unpaid earned wages until 30 days have passed from the missed regularly scheduled payday. If the employee is terminated or quits, her/his earned wages are not due until the next regularly scheduled payday. The counting period is not from when the person was fired or quit but rather from the next scheduled payday.
It is important to note that the claim is only for your hours worked. Wages include compensation for labor or services and fringe benefits such as vacation pay. Not included as a fringe benefit is sick leave. If an employer does not keep vacation pay and sick leave separate from one another and lumps everything together as paid time off (PTO), then all the earned PTO must be paid at the time of separation.
If the employee is paid by commission, the earned commission is not due until the employer receives payment from customer for the good or service which generated the commission. The employer must provide a separated employee with a periodic accounting of outstanding commissions until all commissions have be been paid or canceled by the customer. If the employer has been paid and the next regularly schedule pay period passes, the employee or former employee must wait 30 days to bring a claim for the unpaid commission.
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