People v. D. H. Ahrend Co.

Subdivision 2 of section 196 of the Labor Law requires every person carrying on a business to pay weekly to each employee the wages earned to a day not more than six days prior to the date of such payment. Violation of this statutory duty is made a misdemeanor by section 1272 of the Penal Law. In the case of officers of a corporate employer, it was held in People v. Grass (257 App. Div. 1) that liability does not attach unless an officer has aided and abetted the corporation in committing this violation of the Labor Law. By chapter 809 of the Laws of 1941, however, section 1272 of the Penal…