Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:667 – Limitation of actions
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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:667
- Commission: means the Louisiana Commission on Human Rights. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:663
- Employee: means any female individual who is employed to work forty or more hours a week and who is employed by the employer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:663
- Employer: means any department, office, division, agency, commission, board, committee or other organizational unit of the state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:663
A. Any action filed in the Nineteenth Judicial District Court to recover unpaid wages or any other form of relief for a violation of this Chapter shall be commenced within one year of the date that an employee is aware or should have been aware that the employee’s employer is in violation of this Chapter.
B. This one-year prescriptive period shall be suspended during the sixty-day period allowed the employer by this Chapter to respond to the employee’s written notice, during the pendency of any administrative review or investigation of the employee’s claim by the Louisiana Commission on Human Rights or the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, or both.
Acts 2013, No. 374, §1; Acts 2014, No. 702, §1.