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=== First steps ===
#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 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. #Your employer has 15 days to respond to your Request for Payment. If there continues to be no resolution of he or she does not, or the problemmatter is not resolved, you may then choose to can file a ''[http://www.labour.gov.bc.ca/esb/facshts/complaint.htm complaint'' form] 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 ===