For the purposes of this section, the word "employer" includes every person, firm, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, the state of North Dakota, and all municipal corporations. If at the time of the death of any person, the person's employer is indebted to the person for work, labor, or services performed, and no executor or administrator of the person's estate has been appointed, such employer, upon the request of the surviving spouse, or, if there is no surviving spouse, then upon the request of the person's next eligible heir or heirs as determined by section 30.1-04-03, forthwith shall pay said indebtedness to the said surviving spouse or heirs. The employer shall require proof of the claimant's or claimants' relationship to the decedent by affidavit and shall require claimant or claimants to acknowledge receipt of such payment in writing. Any payments made by an employer pursuant to the provisions of this section operate as a full and complete discharge of the employer's indebtedness to the extent of such payment, and no employer thereafter may be liable therefor to the decedent's estate or the decedent's executor or administrator thereafter appointed. Any amount so received by a spouse or heirs must be considered in diminution of the allowance provided for by section 30.1-07-02.
34-01-13. Actions under Fair Labor Standards Act must be brought within certain time. All suits and actions for the recovery of overtime, damages, fees, or penalties accruing under laws respecting the payment of wages, and specifically under the Act of Congress known as the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 [Pub. L. 75-718; 52 Stat. 1060; 29 U.S.C. 201 et seq.], as same has been or may hereafter be amended, and all other similar acts must be brought within two years after the accrual of such claim for relief, and all claims for relief accruing prior to the date hereof must be brought within one year after passage of this section. This section does not affect suits pending at the time of its passage.
34-01-14. Right to work not to be abridged by membership or nonmembership in labor union. The right of persons to work may not be denied or abridged on account of membership or nonmembership in any labor union or labor organization, and all contracts in negation or abrogation of such rights are hereby declared to be invalid, void, and unenforceable.