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==Guidelines==
==Guidelines==
# To avoid this prohibition, it is highly recommended that that before hiring any worker one should make sure to have cash at hand in order to pay his worker on time.<ref> Sefer Hachinuch Mitzva 585</ref>
# No distinction is made between wages owed to a penniless worker who depends on his employer or a wealthy worker who is financially independent.<ref>Halachos of Other People's Money pg. 96 </ref>  
# No distinction is made between wages owed to a penniless worker who depends on his employer or a wealthy worker who is financially independent.<ref>Halachos of Other People's Money pg. 96 </ref>  
# No distinction is made between small and large amounts of money owed to a worker<ref>Ahavat Chesed introduction to Perek 9, Halachos of Other People's Money pg. 97. see there pg. 104 where he writes that some poskim rule that it applies to even less than a perutah</ref> or the amount of work that it takes.<Ref>Ahavat Chesed 9:3 based on Baba Metzia 111b, Halachos of Other People's Money pg. 104</ref>
# No distinction is made between small and large amounts of money owed to a worker<ref>Ahavat Chesed introduction to Perek 9, Halachos of Other People's Money pg. 97. see there pg. 104 where he writes that some poskim rule that it applies to even less than a perutah</ref> or the amount of work that it takes.<Ref>Ahavat Chesed 9:3 based on Baba Metzia 111b, Halachos of Other People's Money pg. 104</ref>