Montana Code Annotated 2019

TITLE 39. LABOR

CHAPTER 3. WAGES AND WAGE PROTECTION

Part 2. Payment of Wages

Contracts In Violation Of Part Void

39-3-208. Contracts in violation of part void. Any contract or agreement made between an employer and an employee the provisions of which violate, evade, or circumvent this part is unlawful and void, but the employee may sue to recover the wages earned, together with the penalty specified in 39-3-206 or separately to recover the penalty if the wages have been paid.

History: En. Sec. 5, Ch. 11, L. 1919; re-en. Sec. 3088, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 3088, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 41-1305; amd. Sec. 12, Ch. 397, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 490, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 134, L. 1993.