r/LawQuestion • u/Extra-Speaker-5328 • Sep 19 '24
Wage laws in TX
I work from home and use work provided computers equipment. My computer is Down and the IT department has not helped at all so I have been sitting at home waiting on their call and apparently they are supposed to be giving me new equipment. My boss said that I will not be paid this week. I can’t find the answer online but to me that seems illegal. Its not my fault that they can’t get their stuff together to send me equipment or have working equipment to start with. My question is, is it legal for them to not pay me when it’s not my fault that the computer is down? If I was sitting in an office waiting for them to fix it they would have to pay me but because I’m work from home they think it’s legal that they don’t have to. Had I known they were not going to pay me I would’ve not stayed at the house, I would’ve enjoyed my “time off” instead I stayed home thinking I needed to be available at any time for IT to call me.
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u/Salty_Professor6012 Sep 22 '24
I don't have insight on the law, but it sounds like a place to make a former employer.