Your May Day Points and Authorities

"Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates." Deuteronomy 24:14 (King James Version). See also California Labor Code § 1171.5; Reyes v. Van Elk (2007) 148 Cal.App.4th 604.

Comments

[Jon-Erik G. Storm]

How about these:

For the Wage/hour Plaintiff:

Positive commandment 200:
Deuteronomy 24:15 "Give him his wage on the day it is due"

Negative commandment 238:
Leviticus 19:13 "The wages of a hired worker shall not be left with you overnight until the morning"

For the employer:
Negative Commandment 300
It is forbidden to give a guilty person a more severe punishment than he can bear - Deuteronomy 25:2-3 "He shall give him forty lashes; he may not exceed"

For lawyers in general:

Negative commandment 315:
Exodus 22:27 "You shall not curse the judges"

Negative Commandment 281
It is forbidden to listen to only one side while sitting in judgment - Exodus 23:1 "You shall not raise a false report"

[Leonard]

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