KRS 337.020: Time of payment of wages -- Exception.

Every employer doing business in this state shall, as often as semimonthly, pay to each of

its employees all wages or salary earned to a day not more than eighteen (18) days prior to

the date of that payment. Any employee who is absent at the time fixed fo r payment, or

who, for any other reason, is not paid at that time, shall be paid thereafter at any time

upon six (6) days' demand. No employer subject to this section shall, by any means,

secure exemption from it. Every such employee shall have a right of action against any

such employer for the full amount of his wages due on each regular pay day. The

provisions of this section do not apply to those individuals defined in KRS

337.010(2)(a)2.