Paying Wages

Question: In modern times such as we live in, is it necessary for employers to pay wages each day as the Bible seems to indicate?

Answer: The Bible does require employers to pay wages daily. Notice what Yahweh commanded:

"You are not to oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired man are not to remain with you all night until morning" (Lev. 19:13).

Here is an unambiguous command to pay wages daily. Yahshua even gave a parable (Matt. 20:8) which showed compliance to the Law just quoted. Yahweh calls it robbery (a serious charge) not to pay the employee his wages no later than the night following the day he earned them. If the employee is poor, the wage must be paid that day before the sun sets (Deut. 24:15)-in any society.

This is rarely, if ever, the practice in our society. Stealing wages by failing to pay the wage at the end of the day is the one of the most common forms of theft today.

It would be interesting to see how wage disputes between labor and management would be affected if this rule were followed. What economic spinoffs would result from the application of just this one law?

Is failure to comply with this economic law part of the reason why businesses sometimes suffer crushing losses, employee apathy, embezzlement, strangling governmental red tape, and a myriad of other woes?

Could it be these are penalties from causes yet unidentified? A sort of "collection" on debts incurred for a form of robbery?

The biggest problem with Yahweh's Law is that very few have ever actually tried it where its laws are clearly applicable! The Bible has the solutions-if they are used. -ICY