Alabama
What Alabama law says about deposits, firings, overtime, collectors and accidents — and where each claim gets filed.
5 guides written for this state
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| claim | free route | statute |
|---|---|---|
| Landlord & tenant a landlord keeping my deposit | — | Ala. Code § 35-9A-201 |
| Employment unpaid overtime | Alabama has no state office that takes a wage claim, and no state minimum wage or overtime law behind one. The free route here is the federal Wage and Hour Division: filing a complaint costs nothing, and by law the Division may not disclose your name, what you complained about, or that a complaint exists at all.↗ | — |
| Consumer a debt collector harassing me | The Attorney General's Consumer Interest Division takes the complaint, online or on paper, and it costs nothing. Alabama licenses no collection agencies and has no debt collection act of its own, so this office is acting on the state's general consumer protection law rather than on a collection statute. The FDCPA claim itself is still yours to bring, and the complaint does not replace it.↗ | — |
| Employment being fired for complaining | Alabama has no state fair employment agency, and that is the whole answer to your deadline. There is no state office to take a discrimination complaint against a private employer — the Alabama Department of Labor refers you to the EEOC — so the 300-day extension never applies here and you have 180 days from the day it happened. Almost every national article you will read says 300. In Alabama that is wrong, and the difference is four months.↗ | — |
| Injury a car accident | — | Ala. Code § 6-2-38(l) |
free route · 3 of 5 jurisdictions carry this column.
statute · 2 of 5 jurisdictions carry this column.
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