Labor Ready Northeast, Inc. v. McConaghy

OPINION

FLANDERS, Justice.

As our parents used to tell us, “money doesn’t grow on trees.” But nowadays, for a fee, it sometimes comes out of machines.

In this case, an employer of temporary workers hired them out each day to per form various manual-labor jobs for the employer’s customers. Pursuant to its “work today, cash today” policy, the employer equipped its branch offices with so-called cash-dispensing machines (CDMs) for these laborers to use, thereby affording them an optional means to convert their earned wages for each day’s work into cash. In doing so, however, the employer charged…