Does an employer legally have to send you your final cheque if you don't pick it up within a week?

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I quit my job over a month ago now and I had been unable to come in to pick up my cheque as well within a week and because there was only six hours on it I ended up forgetting and getting distracted with school. I assumed I would get it in the mail as I heard somewhere they legally have to send it to you if you don't pick it up within a week. I emailed my ex boss and she refuses to mail it to me told me I was supposed to pick it up while also saying it's not her responsibility to "babysit" her ex staff. I'm wondering if this is legal for her to do this or does she legally have to send the cheque and paystub to me?

Siobhan. · Accepted Answer

Sounds like your old boss is being a sore loser on losing an employee. I don't know the rules and regulations for canada. In Arizona, I left my job to work at a different location in another state. They sent me my check. But I don't know if that's different cuz I was still with the company. 

She is right though, it's your responsibility to pick up you check.

? · Answer

No, they could not. As has been pronounced above, they don't ought to pay you till they were scheduled to finish that had you kept operating (next pay era), yet they're required to pay you in finished for the quantity worked. it really is unquestionably worth noting that maximum employers specially ask once you have ever left a position without giving 2 weeks' observe, so even if you'll receives a fee once you leave you probability endangering destiny employment by technique of not giving observe.

steve105 · Answer

they are not obligated to send you your check. just like how they are not obligated to hire you back..it is your responsibility to go pick it up.

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Does an employer legally have to send you your final cheque if you don't pick it up within a week?

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