My employee doesn't have reddit. I run a small restaurant. I hired a server a few weeks back and I over heard him complain he never got paid for training and first few days at his last place. They kept giving him the run around about how it was in the mail. It had been over 2 months and the back pay was around $300. I told him it was illegal to withhold wages and I printed up a Texas workforce complaint document and told him on his next day off go in and ask for a written check, with this document in hand. Ask for your check and tell them they have to write you one or you will fill out the complaint there, sit at the bar and fill out the form in front of them, get names of the managers and district managers then leave. I told him I'd bet my next paycheck they write him a check then and there.
This last Thursday he went in and did just that. They tired to give him the same line, didn't work. He started filling out the form and he didn't get half way done before they hand a check in hand.
Treat your employees right or they will become someone else's employees.