Skip to content

CS Professional · Labour Laws and Practice · Law of Wages

A claim of Sunita against her employer in Pune arose on 1 April 2023. She files the application before the authority on 15 July 2026, after a long illness that she can document. Under the Code on Wages, 2019, what is the position?

The authority may entertain the application if sufficient cause for the delay is shown. The Code sets a three-year limit from when the claim arises, but a proviso allows later applications on sufficient cause. Documented illness can be such cause, so the claim is neither barred absolutely nor accepted automatically.

  1. AThe application is barred absolutely because three years have passed
  2. BThe authority may entertain it if sufficient cause for the delay is shownCorrect
  3. CThe application must be filed before a civil court instead
  4. DThe authority must accept it automatically without any cause

Explanation

The application may be filed within three years from the date the claim arises. Here more than three years have passed, but the proviso lets the authority entertain a later application on sufficient cause being shown. Documented illness may qualify, so it is not absolutely barred, nor automatic.

Did you get it right without looking?

One question tells you little. A timed set on Law of Wages shows your real accuracy, how long you take and where you lose marks.

Practise Law of WagesFree diagnostic mock

More Law of Wages questions