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Back Pay Award

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A legally enforceable decree ordering an employer to pay to an employee retroactively a designated increase in his or her salary that occurred during a particular period of employment. A decision rendered by a judicial or Quasi-Judicial body that an employee has a legal right to collect accrued salary that has not been paid out to him or her.

Back pay awards ensue from litigation involving employment discrimination and issues regarding labor-management relations. Federal Civil Rights legislation provides for back pay awards to compensate the victim for economic losses suffered as a result of discrimination.



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2d DCA February 1, 2006), the court held that the plaintiff's attorneys' fees, costs and expenses, compensatory damages, and back pay award were collectively subject to the limitation on the "total amount of recovery" provided for in F.
We would want to stress that we've given no general undertaking to do this in relation to back pay awards.
The Court ruled that because the policy goals of IRCA outweigh those of the NLRA, the immigration act precluded any back pay award to undocumented immigrants under the labor act.
 
 
 
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