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Vijay Sharma (Self employed)     16 May 2013

Expenses not paid by company after resignation

Hi,


I was working with one of the leading private sector bank in Punjab, india. I worked as sales manager for almost a year with last date of working as 07-03-2012. I claimed my expenses for the last3-4 months before my last working day in the bank.

 

After following for almost a year, they are saying that they are unable to reimburse my travelling expenses. The HR guy says only one line " Pls contact ur senior" and senior kept making issues and asking for more time and time and now he is saying that he is unable to get it done as the NSM has been changed...

Please let me know how i can get my claims. i have all the emails from my senior as well as the HR person. Can i file a suite against the employer?

 

Please help.

Regards.



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Kumar Doab (FIN)     20 May 2013

 

Address all representations to good offices of Appointing Authority, MD, Chairman, Company Secretary by name and narrate all representation made so far (mention name of company personnel, designation, dept, name of company, address and state phone numbers, date of phone call, email id, in person etc) and conclude that the company personnel have been willfully and intentionally trying to do away the amounts company owes to you and you are seeking intervention of good offices for relief.

 

Demand that payment of dues by Bank DD only, and all documents should be supplied to you say within next…………….7 days and postage prepaid (as purchased fro PO) self addressed envelope is attached for sending redg. post to you.

 

If the good offices also maintain studied silence or do not provide any relief you may have to charge and pull the company personnel by name, and officials in good offices in appropriate forum.

 

The time for payment of FNF dues is usual pay day.

Company should have supplied acceptance of resignation, service/work experience certificate, relieving letter, acknowledgment of handover of charge, PF number/PF account slips/ attested copies of PF forms, correct FNF statement, Form 16 as per correct FNF statement on last day in office.


In addition to the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, states also provide for compliance's under the Shops & Establishment Acts, Standard Standing Orders Act……. If the employee falls within the definition under these enactments, then he would be protected, up to that extent.


e.g.;
-----Delhi Shops & Establishment Act:

37. Powers and duties of the Inspector:
(b) Duties of the Inspector:
(i) that in dispensing with the services of an employee the provision of the Act and Rules
have been complied with and no dues payable under the Act or Rules have been
Withheld;

{You may approach the Inspector for relief.}

{ banks are covered under this act}

-----The designation alone does not decide employee is a workman or not.
Your lawyer may ask you a set of structured questions and may opine that you fall within the category of workman.

You may go thru the standing orders of the company/model standing orders:

13. Termination of employment.-- (3) Where the employment of any workmen is terminated, the wages earned by him and other dues, if any, shall be paid before the expiry of the second working day from the day on which his employment is terminated.


16. Certificate on termination of service.--Every permanent workman shall be entitled to a service certificate at the time of his dismissal, discharge or retirement from service.

NOTE. - There is a provision under this Act for issuing a service certificate at the time of dismissal, discharge or retirement and every person is entitled to take such certificate.


------THE PAYMENT OF WAGES ACT, 1936
{Applicable to all employees drawing wages up to Rs.18000/pm as per def. of wages in the Act}

2. Definitions:
3*[(vi) "wages" means…………..
(d) any sum which by reason of the termination of employment of the person employed
is payable under any law, contract or instrument which provides for the payment of such sum, whether with or without deductions, but does not provide for the time within which the payment is to be made;

 

Or you may approach civil court. The limitation period to file may be 3 years in your case.



You may also approach some senior trade union leaders, community leaders also. They know the precise and effective ways to drill sense into the heads of such personnel and employers.

 

There are threads suggesting that employees filed criminal complaints under Section 406, 420...........

and that unpaid amounts can be claimed as debt on employer.

e.g.; https://www.lawyersclubindia.com/forum/details.asp?mod_id=72011&offset=1#.UNRXofLZ1JI

You may approach a competent and experienced labor consultant/service lawyer as ap, show all documents, give in person and proceed under expert advice of your lawyer.

 

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