Institutions not above the California Labor Law

Next up, I called the small business association with the state of California—on their website they have a liaison for prompt payment of vendor invoices from state agencies. They advised me to contact the state controller who then put me on to the auditor. I talked to the auditor and he said it is unprofessional and said they do have a time limit of 30 days—max. The auditor also said I need to contact the university accounting department to see if the check had indeed been cut. I called someone in the clerical department—a friend—and she found out that none of my invoices (I was waiting for 3) were actually in accounting. If I hadn’t chased this down, I would still be in limbo and maybe not get paid for months. I finally got it resolved and received one check a week later—just the one that was overdue.