Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:666 – Damages
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:666
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
- 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
- Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
A. An employer who violates the provisions of this Chapter shall be liable to the affected employees in the amount of the employee‘s unpaid wages and reasonable attorney fees and costs.
B. The award of monetary relief shall be limited to those violations which have occurred within a thirty-six-month period prior to the employee’s written notice to the employer, as required in La. Rev. Stat. 23:665(A).
C. In cases where suit is filed in the district court, no monetary relief may be awarded the employee for losses incurred between the date that the district court rendered its final judgment and the date upon which all appeals of that judgment have been exhausted.
D. Interim earnings by the employee discriminated against shall operate to reduce the monetary relief otherwise allowable under this Chapter.
E. Nothing in this Chapter prevents the settlement of a claim by agreement of the employer and employee for a lesser amount than the employee alleges the employee is due.
F. An employee found by a court to have brought a frivolous claim under this Chapter shall be held liable to the employer or any agent of the employer who was named a defendant in the suit, or both, for reasonable damages, reasonable attorney fees, and court costs incurred as a result of the claim.
Acts 2013, No. 374, §1.