Snelling & Snelling, Inc. v. Niven

Snelling’s exaction from Niven of an assignment of wages1 (according to Snelling’s fee calculation, 93% of Niven’s wages during each of the first two months of the employment!) makes the contract “void and unenforceable in any court”,2 La.R.S. 23:112:

*1010“No employment agency shall receive or require any applicant to execute any . . . assignment of wages or salary . . . unless said document has been approved both as to form and content by the commissioner of labor or his authorized representative. The commissioner shall approve any such papers such as are permitted by this section. Every such…