LEV362 Now the verse we have quoted previously admonishes even in the case where the employer gives the worker his due hire, but merely defers payment and does not remit on time. How much greater is the warning where the employer withholds the hire altogether, and does not pay at all--or else, deducts even a single cent from the amount agreed-upon in the first place. The employer here is guilty of actual robbery. He transgresses the prohibition [this verse]. So the Gemara explains (Bava Metzia 61a/b; 111a).