Translations:Does Biblical law require employers to pay their employees daily?/4/en

The intent of the law is to prohibit the "oppression" of the worker on the part of an employer. The specific oppression is the theft by an employer of the "choice value" (some call this the "time value") of the employee's wages. In a subsistence-level economy, even small disruptions of a worker's opportunity to exercise his choice with his money can have oppressive effects. The Biblical principle is: unless the worker agrees to the delayed payment, it is theft. But Biblical law does not allow civil government interference in voluntary, non-fraudulent transactions.[This is one of the distinctives of God's law which separates it from man's law: and it's an indictment of every single modern legal system.]