text: my employer has not payed me since oct how can i recieve my back pay without waiting until next payday? i work for a federally funded program and my employer said he is just now finding timesheets i turned in and he is telling me that i have to wait until the 27th to get paid for over 200 hours of work already completed. anyone have any ideas how to get paid without having to wait since i have already performed the work? quit, but first threaten legal action.  talk to a lawyer.  how come this is just coming up now?  what have you been living on since oct?