Each guide answers one question at the moment it is asked — usually in the first angry week after the job ends. Plain words, the statute underneath, nothing held back to sell you later.
Your state, your last day, your rate — and the verdict prints your owed-by date, the penalty in dollars, your vacation verdict, and one total-owed number. Free, and nothing leaves your browser.
For the laptop, for the uniform, because you quit without notice — what an employer may and may not hold back, state by state, and the deadline that still applies.
How waiting-time penalties actually work — per-day wages, percentage damages, treble damages, and the written demand that starts the clock in trigger states.
The three legal classes of vacation payout — required by law, decided by the handbook, and silent — and the exact test that decides which one you are in.
Why a written demand — not a call, not a text to your old boss — is the legal trigger in several states, and what a demand letter must contain to work.
The sequence that works — deadline, written demand, state claim, and the documents that win each step — for the month-after-the-job when the money just doesn't come.
Severance is the package they offer. Your last paycheck is money they already owe. The boundary, the two clocks, and why confusing them costs people money.