Is general release required to receive owed wages? Is employer obligated to pay interest on the wages owed?

Is it legal for employer not to pay any interest for the wages owed for more than 3 years due to employer's own accounting/HR mistakes ?

Is employer allowed not to pay employee the owed wages due to its own accounting errors if the employee is not willing to sign the specific release?

The employer told the employee is required to execute the employment related general release before it release the payment. When the actual release forwarded to the employee, it was not a general release, it was a release agreement with specific language such as discrimination, retalization, deformation...

Am I allowed to request the compensation for pain and sufferning? My employer/HR simply ignored my request of payment. Despite I had provided all the written document/WC court decision, Insurance payment to the employer, it took me more than 3 years to get my employment account corrected.

Does the employee has the right to receive his/her owed salary without executing the release? Does the employee entitle to additional interest of the owed wages?

Do I need a lawyer to deal with my employer?

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