Wage
Complaint - How to File In order for the North
Carolina Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Bureau to be able to
assist an employee with a wage problem, a complaint has to
be filed with this office. To file a wage complaint, call our
Call-Center at (919) 807-2796
(Raleigh) or toll-free (NC only) 1-800-NC-LABOR (1-800-625-2267).
An Information Specialist will take the complaint information
over the telephone and enter
it into our computer data intake system. To better serve you,
we ask that you have the name of the business and the name
and title of the official
we need to contact including this official’s email and postal mailing
address and telephone number; we also need your email address
if you have one. An employee may file a wage complaint against
a business on behalf
of other employees who have the same wage problem. We cannot
take anonymous wage payment complaints, but you may request
that your name not be used
in the investigation if the wage problem is happening to other
employees. If the wage problem pertains only to you, then we
must use your name in
the investigation. Our Call-Center is open from 8 am to 5
pm, Monday thru Friday.
An employee may also take legal action on their own, including
small claims court if applicable, without first having to file a wage complaint
with this office. But an employee cannot come back to us to file a wage
claim if they take their own legal action in court regardless of the outcome.
However, if an employee files a wage complaint with us and we cannot resolve
their complaint, then they are still free to take legal action on their
own.
NOTE: We do not take wage payment complaints of $50 or
less. And if your wage complaint deals with your last paycheck, you
must wait 10 days after the payday in order to file a wage complaint
with this office.
For information on taking your own small claims action, please click on
SMALL CLAIMS. (Note:
While this link is for Wake County, small claim procedures and
forms are the same throughout North Carolina. You need to contact
your local county Clerk of Superior Court for information on how
to file a small claims action in your county.)
Revised
8-18-2006
North Carolina Department of
Labor
Wage and Hour Bureau
1101 Mail
Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-1101
(919) 807-2796 or (toll-free NC only) 1-800-NC-LABOR
Web site: http://www.nclabor.com
