Minute everything in writing under proper acknowledgment. However before you write anything now, let it be drafted by an able Labor Law Consultant/Service Matters lawyer/Law Firm, Employees/Trade Union leaders and you may proceed further after understanding merits and options.
Your counsels may opine that you can approach:
Inspector appointed under (Name of the state) Shops & Commercial Establishments Act, : Such establishments are covered by the Act and you must be covered by the def. of ‘Employee’ as in the Act. This Act does not discriminate between ‘Workman’ and ‘Non Workman’……………and it is inserted in the Act that in case service conditions are not defined then this Act shall govern the service conditions.
Inspector appointed under; Payment of Wages Act
O/O Labor Commissioner; if you are covered as “workman’…………………and your counsel may opine that you are covered.
Higher/Highest Officials of Dept. of labor of your state...............
Employee's/Trade Unions e.g. CITU/INTUC/AITUC/BMS etc
Your counsels may opine that you can lodge complaint u/s 406,420 and file ‘winding up’ petition as unpaid wages are debt on employer, civil suit for recovery etc.
If wages are not paid then company might have defaulted on PF,ESIC,TDS etc..............and you may approach:
RPFC
ESIC
ITO-TDS where you file ITR and CIT-TDS where company files ITR
