Boudreaux v. Hamilton Medical Group, Inc.

LABORDE, Judge.

The most interesting issue raised by this appeal concerns whether LSA-R.S. 23:631 and 632, calling for assessment of penalty wages and attorney fees against employers failing to timely compensate former employ*722ees for sums owed, is applicable to situations involving contractual severance pay.

After defendant hospital failed to compensate him pursuant to an employment contract providing for three months severance pay regardless of cause, plaintiff physician filed suit following his voluntary termination of employment. The trial judge held defendant liable for contractual severance…