Gress v. Petersburg Foods, LLC

(Filed Dec. 9, 2003)

I dissent from both of the majority’s holdings on the issues of vacation pay and yield bonus pay. As I have stated previously in my dissents in Ingram v. City of Princeton, 208 W.Va. 352, 540 S.E.2d 569 (2000) (per curiam) and Howell v. City of Princeton, 210 W.Va. 735, 559 S.E.2d 424 (2001) (per curiam), the Legislature designed the Wage Payment and Collection Act to help working people in the collection of compensation for services rendered. “The West Virginia Wage Payment and Collection Act is remedial legislation designed to protect working people and assist them in…