Louisiana
What Louisiana 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 | — | La. R.S. 9:3251 |
| Employment unpaid overtime | Louisiana has no state minimum wage law and no state overtime rule behind it, so the free route here is the federal Wage and Hour Division. A complaint to it costs nothing, and by law the Division may not disclose your name, what you complained about, or that a complaint exists.↗ | — |
| Consumer a debt collector harassing me | The Office of Financial Institutions is the state regulator here, and it takes the complaint. Louisiana keeps its collection rules inside the Consumer Credit Law rather than a standalone act, so a collector's exposure in Louisiana runs through the credit statute and the federal Act above rather than through a state fair-collection statute.↗ | — |
| Employment being fired for complaining | Your EEOC deadline here is 300 days rather than the 180 most national articles print, and the reason is the Louisiana Commission on Human Rights: the extension in 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-5(e)(1) turns on whether a state agency has authority over the same conduct, and here one does. That office takes the charge and it costs nothing. It also sets a filing deadline of its own, and in a dozen states that one is shorter than the federal window — ask the office for its date rather than counting on the 300.↗ | — |
| Injury a car accident | — | La. Civ. Code art. 3493.1 |
free route · 3 of 5 jurisdictions carry this column.
statute · 2 of 5 jurisdictions carry this column.
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