Can employer stop payment on paycheck?

Contact DILHR., Department of industry, labor and human relations for the State of Wisconsin; they will assist you in securing payment for work performed at work for your employer.

If the employer stopped payment on a paycheck, and you are still owed those wages, you can file a complaint with the Labor Standards Bureau, Equal Rights Division within the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development. It will investigate the claim and make an initial determination over whether your employer owes you wages. If so, the bureau will typically attempt to collect that amount for you from the employer. If the employer does not voluntarily pay it, the bureau will referred the matter to your local District Attorney's Office for its consideration. Depending on the amount, the district attorney will either file a claim to collect that amount for you or will decline to pursue it for you and tell you to pursue it through your own private lawsuit. Wisconsin law does provide for private lawsuits, and it encourages private attorneys to take these claims by providing for an award of attorneys fees if your claim is successful. So you may want to contact a private attorney to pursue this claim.

Of course, you must be entitled to the amount of the payment in the paycheck in order for you to have a legal remedy for the entire amount. If the employer determined that it had made an error on in calculating the payment on the paycheck, then the employer would be entitled to stop payment on the erroneous check, but it would have to issue a new check to pay you the correct amount.