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    "rule_statement": "When an employee is discharged: Due on the last day worked (the day of discharge).",
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    "effective_to": "",
    "citation_text": "Cal. Lab. Code §§201–203, 227.3",
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    "jurisdiction_code": "CA",
    "jurisdiction_name": "California",
    "rule_id": "final_paycheck.due_when_laid_off",
    "rule_statement": "When an employee is laid off: Due on the last day worked (the day of discharge).",
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  },
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    "jurisdiction_code": "CA",
    "jurisdiction_name": "California",
    "rule_id": "final_paycheck.due_when_quit",
    "rule_statement": "When an employee quits: If you quit with at least 72 hours' notice, your check is due on your last day. Quit without that notice and it is due within 72 hours of quitting (§202).",
    "value": "ca_quit",
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    "value_days": null,
    "effective_from": "",
    "effective_to": "",
    "citation_text": "Cal. Lab. Code §§201–203, 227.3",
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    "jurisdiction_code": "CA",
    "jurisdiction_name": "California",
    "rule_id": "final_paycheck.waiting_time_penalty",
    "rule_statement": "Labor Code §203: for a willful failure to pay on time, the wages continue as a penalty — one full day's wages for each day the pay is late, up to 30 days. A genuine good-faith dispute over whether wages are owed is a defense, so read the number as the statutory maximum, not a promise.",
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    "effective_from": "",
    "effective_to": "",
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    "citation_url": "",
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  },
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    "jurisdiction_code": "CA",
    "jurisdiction_name": "California",
    "rule_id": "final_paycheck.accrued_vacation_payout",
    "rule_statement": "State law requires payout of accrued, unused vacation/PTO when employment ends.",
    "value": "required",
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    "value_days": null,
    "effective_from": "",
    "effective_to": "",
    "citation_text": "Cal. Lab. Code §§201–203, 227.3",
    "citation_url": "",
    "last_verified": "2026-10-26",
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  },
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    "jurisdiction_code": "TX",
    "jurisdiction_name": "Texas",
    "rule_id": "final_paycheck.due_when_dismissed",
    "rule_statement": "When an employee is discharged: Due within 6 calendar days after the last day worked.",
    "value": "cal_days",
    "value_unit": "deadline_rule",
    "value_days": 6,
    "effective_from": "",
    "effective_to": "",
    "citation_text": "Tex. Lab. Code §§61.014, 61.053",
    "citation_url": "",
    "last_verified": "2026-10-26",
    "change_type": "initial"
  },
  {
    "jurisdiction_code": "TX",
    "jurisdiction_name": "Texas",
    "rule_id": "final_paycheck.due_when_laid_off",
    "rule_statement": "When an employee is laid off: Due within 6 calendar days after the last day worked.",
    "value": "cal_days",
    "value_unit": "deadline_rule",
    "value_days": 6,
    "effective_from": "",
    "effective_to": "",
    "citation_text": "Tex. Lab. Code §§61.014, 61.053",
    "citation_url": "",
    "last_verified": "2026-10-26",
    "change_type": "initial"
  },
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    "jurisdiction_code": "TX",
    "jurisdiction_name": "Texas",
    "rule_id": "final_paycheck.due_when_quit",
    "rule_statement": "When an employee quits: Due on the next regular payday.",
    "value": "next_payday",
    "value_unit": "deadline_rule",
    "value_days": null,
    "effective_from": "",
    "effective_to": "",
    "citation_text": "Tex. Lab. Code §§61.014, 61.053",
    "citation_url": "",
    "last_verified": "2026-10-26",
    "change_type": "initial"
  },
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    "jurisdiction_code": "TX",
    "jurisdiction_name": "Texas",
    "rule_id": "final_paycheck.waiting_time_penalty",
    "rule_statement": "Texas has no automatic waiting-time penalty an employee can simply add up. What Texas has instead is a fast, free Texas Workforce Commission claim — and the Commission may assess a bad-faith penalty of up to 100% of the wages against the employer (§61.053). The claim, filed on time, is the leverage.",
    "value": "none",
    "value_unit": "penalty_mode",
    "value_days": null,
    "effective_from": "",
    "effective_to": "",
    "citation_text": "Tex. Lab. Code §§61.014, 61.053",
    "citation_url": "",
    "last_verified": "2026-10-26",
    "change_type": "initial"
  },
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    "jurisdiction_code": "TX",
    "jurisdiction_name": "Texas",
    "rule_id": "final_paycheck.accrued_vacation_payout",
    "rule_statement": "No state statute requires payout; the employer's written policy controls.",
    "value": "policy",
    "value_unit": "payout_rule",
    "value_days": null,
    "effective_from": "",
    "effective_to": "",
    "citation_text": "Tex. Lab. Code §§61.014, 61.053",
    "citation_url": "",
    "last_verified": "2026-10-26",
    "change_type": "initial"
  },
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    "jurisdiction_code": "WA",
    "jurisdiction_name": "Washington",
    "rule_id": "final_paycheck.due_when_dismissed",
    "rule_statement": "When an employee is discharged: Due on the next regular payday.",
    "value": "next_payday",
    "value_unit": "deadline_rule",
    "value_days": null,
    "effective_from": "",
    "effective_to": "",
    "citation_text": "RCW 49.48.010, 49.52.070",
    "citation_url": "",
    "last_verified": "2026-10-26",
    "change_type": "initial"
  },
  {
    "jurisdiction_code": "WA",
    "jurisdiction_name": "Washington",
    "rule_id": "final_paycheck.due_when_laid_off",
    "rule_statement": "When an employee is laid off: Due on the next regular payday.",
    "value": "next_payday",
    "value_unit": "deadline_rule",
    "value_days": null,
    "effective_from": "",
    "effective_to": "",
    "citation_text": "RCW 49.48.010, 49.52.070",
    "citation_url": "",
    "last_verified": "2026-10-26",
    "change_type": "initial"
  },
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    "jurisdiction_code": "WA",
    "jurisdiction_name": "Washington",
    "rule_id": "final_paycheck.due_when_quit",
    "rule_statement": "When an employee quits: Due on the next regular payday.",
    "value": "next_payday",
    "value_unit": "deadline_rule",
    "value_days": null,
    "effective_from": "",
    "effective_to": "",
    "citation_text": "RCW 49.48.010, 49.52.070",
    "citation_url": "",
    "last_verified": "2026-10-26",
    "change_type": "initial"
  },
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    "jurisdiction_code": "WA",
    "jurisdiction_name": "Washington",
    "rule_id": "final_paycheck.waiting_time_penalty",
    "rule_statement": "Washington has no automatic per-day waiting penalty — a distinction some calculator sites get wrong. What exists: interest on the unpaid wages, and if the withholding was willful, a court can award double damages (RCW 49.52.070). The L&I claim is free and taken seriously.",
    "value": "none",
    "value_unit": "penalty_mode",
    "value_days": null,
    "effective_from": "",
    "effective_to": "",
    "citation_text": "RCW 49.48.010, 49.52.070",
    "citation_url": "",
    "last_verified": "2026-10-26",
    "change_type": "initial"
  },
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    "jurisdiction_code": "WA",
    "jurisdiction_name": "Washington",
    "rule_id": "final_paycheck.accrued_vacation_payout",
    "rule_statement": "No state statute requires payout; the employer's written policy controls.",
    "value": "policy",
    "value_unit": "payout_rule",
    "value_days": null,
    "effective_from": "",
    "effective_to": "",
    "citation_text": "RCW 49.48.010, 49.52.070",
    "citation_url": "",
    "last_verified": "2026-10-26",
    "change_type": "initial"
  }
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