made pursuant to the three-fourths guarantee are “‘damages owed employees for suffering an unexpected employment loss where they had a rightful expectation of continued employment with that employer.’” Conrad, 206 W.Va. at 49, 521 S.E.2d at 541 (quoting Georgia-Pacific Corp. v. Unemployment Compensation Bd. of Review, 15 not commit error as to its ruling that the provisions of the Act do not apply to the three-fourths guarantee payments. D. Unlawful Wage Assignment Plaintiffs maintain that the lower court erred in its dismissal of their claims that Defendants committed unlawful wage assignments by withholding various amounts of their pay for such items as insurance, lodging, and travel costs. See Jones v. Tri-County Growers, Inc., 179 W.Va. 218, 222-23, 366 S.E.2d 726, 730-31(1988) (<HOLDING>). Since the lower court dismissed this claim of
holding that federal wage controls applied to state employees too holding that wage assignments of migrant workerswere violative of wage payment and collection act for apple growers failure to comply with statutory conditions governing such assignments holding that the flsa does not prohibit changes in wage rates it prohibits the payment of overtime at less than one and onehalf times the regular wage rate holding that the flsa preempted plaintiffs wage and invasionofprivacy claims holding that same standard applies to equal pay act and title vii wage discrimination claims