If you believe your employer is not paying you wages due, call our wage and hour attorneys to find out more information about pursuing your legal rights. A new law, effective April 9, 2011, gives greater protection to workers, and makes changes in the way they are notified of their pay rates and receive wage.Learn your rights when employers withhold bonuses. Outside of a few extremely specific circumstances, withholding an employee's pay without their consent is considered wage theft and illegal. Complete Form W-4 so that your employer can withhold the correct federal income tax from your pay. Give Form W-4 to your employer. With over 40 years of employment law experience, our attorneys know how to hold employers accountable for untimely wage payments. This fact sheet provides general information concerning the application of the FLSA to deductions from employees' wages for uniforms and other facilities. The law gives employers a window of time to pay for labor based on the type of employment. It is illegal for your employer to withhold your wages.