Difference between revisions of "My Employer Isn't Paying My Wages"

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=== First steps ===
=== First steps ===
#Contact your employer and see if you can resolve the problem directly.
#Contact your employer and see if you can resolve the problem directly.
#Obtain a "[http://www.labour.gov.bc.ca/esb/self-help/welcome.htm Complaint Process Self-Help Kit]" from the [[Employment Standards Branch of BC]] as soon as possible. The kit is designed to help employees and employers solve workplace disputes quickly and fairly. It includes a Request for Payment form and a letter from the Employment Standards Branch for you to give to your employer.  
#Obtain a "[http://www.labour.gov.bc.ca/esb/self-help/welcome.htm Complaint Process Self-Help Kit]" from the [[Employment Standards Branch of BC]] as soon as possible. The self-help kit is designed to help employees and employers solve workplace disputes quickly and fairly. It includes a Request for Payment form and a letter from the Employment Standards Branch for you to give to your employer.  
#If there continues to be no resolution of the problem, you may then choose to file a ''complaint'' with the Employment Standards Branch. Note that you have ''six months'' to file a complaint from the time the wages were not paid or your employment ended. If you are within 30 days of the end of the six-month period, you should file your complaint with the Employment Standards Branch and ''then'' use the Self-Help Kit to try and resolve the problem.
#If there continues to be no resolution of the problem, you may then choose to file a ''complaint'' with the Employment Standards Branch. Note that you have ''six months'' to file a complaint from the time the wages were not paid or your employment ended. If you are within 30 days of the end of the six-month period, you should file your complaint with the Employment Standards Branch and ''then'' use the self-help kit to try and resolve the problem.


=== What happens next ===
=== What happens next ===
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