PETERS v. EARLY HEALTHCARE GIVER

No. 86, Sept. Term, 2013.

97 A.3d 621 (2014)

439 Md. 646

Muriel PETERS v. EARLY HEALTHCARE GIVER, INC.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

August 13, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ilana Gelfman ( Francis D. Murnaghan, Jr. , Debra Gardner , Appellate Advocacy Fellow Public Justice Center, Baltimore, MD), on brief, for Appellant,

Jennifer L. Katz , Asst. Atty. Gen. ( Douglas F. Gansler , Atty. Gen. of Maryland, Baltimore, MD), on brief, for amicus curiae brief of Commissioner of Labor and Industry.

Daniel A. Katz, Esq. , Cori M. Cohen, Esq. , Law Office of Gary M. Gilbert & Associates, Silver Spring, MD, Sarah Martinez, Esq. , Hyattsville, MD, Brian J. Markovitz, Esq. , Joseph, Greenwald & Laake, P.A, Greenbelt, MD, C. Shawn Boehringer, Esq. , Nathaniel Norton, Esq. , Baltimore, MD, for amicus curiae brief of Maryland Legal Aid Bureau, Casa De Maryland, Employment Justice Center, Maryland Employment Lawyers Association, Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association and the National Employment Law Project.

Argued before BARBERA, C.J., HARRELL, BATTAGLIA, GREENE, ADKINS, McDONALD and WATTS, JJ.


ADKINS, J.

In this case we are asked to answer three questions concerning the Wage Payment and Collection Law ("WPCL"), Md. Code (1991, 2008 Repl.Vol., 2013 Cum. Supp.), § 3-501 et seq. of the Labor and Employment Article ("LE"), a cause of action frequently litigated in the appellate courts. In answering these questions we are treading new ground on some, but not all of them.

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