In such case all affected employees may join hands and be witness to each other.
Employee can approach:
-----Law/Law Firm; legal notice from your lawyer may drill sense into the heads.
-----Trade Union Leaders (Trade unions have been trying to organize telecom employees)
-----O/o Labor Commissioner: labor Inspector………..
------Inspector Under Delhi Shops and Commercial Establishments Act which is so employee friendly.
You may go thru:
2. DEFINITIONS. (7) “employee” means
3. Rights and privileges under other law, etc., not affected.
7. CLOSING OF ESTABLISHMENT TO BE COMMUNICATED TO THE CHIEF
INSPECTOR.
19. TIME AND CONDITIONS OF PAYMENT OF WAGES.
21. CLAIMS RELATING TO WAGES.
33. Records.
(a) Particulars and forms of the records required to be maintained under section 33
The register of employment and wages is required to be kept in Form ‘G’ duly bound and
pages serially numbered.
35. Inspection of Registers and calling for information.—
37. POWERS AND DUTIES OF INSPECTOR.
(b) Duties of the Inspector
(h) that the wages and other dues are being paid to employees in time as required under the Act;
40. PENALTIES.
41. WILFULLY MAKING FALSE ENTRIES.
------Inspector under Payment of Wages Act (applicable to all employees drawing wages as per def. of wages as in the Act up to Rs. 180000/pm)
You may go thru: 2. Definitions………3*[(vi) "wages" means……
3. Responsibility for payment of wages
4. Fixation of wage-periods.
5. Time of payment of wages.-
The failure and default can lead to penalties which might be Rs7500 per instance.
However you may check with Inspector under Payment of Wages Act which might be Labor Inspector at your location.
The o/o Labor Commissioner can guide you on it.
-------Civil Court
There are threads to indicate employees have been contemplating to lodge criminal complaint under sec 406/420………………………..and approach employers as Creditors treating the employer as Debtor and unpaid wages as debt on employer…………….
https://www.lawyersclubindia.com/forum/details.asp?mod_id=72011&offset=1#.UNRXofLZ1JI
Has this employer been providing salary slips, PF number, PF a/c slips, Form 16…………………etc?
