Salary Stuck?
Recover Your Employment
Dues Legally.
Reclaim unpaid Full & Final (F&F) dues, delayed salaries, performance incentives, statutory gratuity, and wrongful termination payouts in India. We launch 3 highly authoritative legal notices and provide 1 formal police complaint draft week-by-week.
Our system targets HR, corporate email addresses, and the personal mailboxes of directors for maximum escalation.
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Swipe →1. Professional Salary & Employment Dues Recovery Service
Employment is a mutually binding legal contract. When an employer refuses to credit your monthly salaries, delays payments indefinitely, or withholds your Full and Final (F&F) settlement, they are committing a direct breach of contract and violating the statutory labor laws of India.
The Legal Recovery Salary and Employment Dues Recovery Service is a specialized, end-to-end legal tech solution designed to dismantle corporate asymmetry. We understand that well-funded companies count on employees quietly moving on because of the prohibitive cost and time of traditional litigation. We have restructured the entire recovery lifecycle into an aggressive, automated, and attorney-verified pre-litigation pipeline to force employers to settle your dues quickly.
Our Service Promise: We provide comprehensive, flat-fee recovery support with absolutely zero commissions taken on your recovered money. We draft, validate, and launch progressive legal notices designed to reach the top decision-makers at your former company.
No company - regardless of its scale, startup status, or institutional backing - can legally withhold your earned salary. Let our platform take the burden of writing, executing, and tracking your legal claims so you can reclaim your hard-earned earnings.
2. What We Help You Recover
An outstanding employment claim is rarely limited to basic salary alone. Our legal panel compiles and details every single component of your outstanding remuneration to maximize the impact of your claim.
A. Unpaid Salaries & Cumulative Delayed Wages
We recover unpaid base salaries, Special Allowances, House Rent Allowance (HRA), and other standard monthly pay structures detailed in your appointment letter. Under state Shops and Establishments laws, withholding these payments is a severe statutory default.
B. Unpaid Full & Final (F&F) Settlement Dues
Upon your resignation or termination, companies are legally mandated to clear your outstanding account. Our notice pipeline targets the delay in F&F dues, enforcing the strict payment timelines outlined under state laws and the Code on Wages.
C. Performance Bonuses, Commissions & Incentives
Employers often label bonuses and sales incentives as "discretionary" to justify withholding them. If your appointment letter outlines target criteria and you have written proof (emails or scorecards) of achieving them, we treat these components as enforceable contractual debts in our legal notices.
D. Notice Period Salaries & Severance Pay
If you were terminated without the contractually stipulated notice period, you are legally entitled to receive notice pay. We recover the notice period salary in lieu of notice and contractual severance amounts.
E. Withheld Gratuity & Leave Encashment
Under the Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972, employees completing continuous service are entitled to gratuity. We compute and claim your outstanding gratuity - demanding statutory interest for every day of delay - along with the financial value of your accumulated privilege leaves.
3. Our 3+1 Notice Strategy: Engineered for Maximum Pressure
Traditional court cases are painfully slow. Most companies ignore a single legal letter, assuming the employee will not pursue the matter further. To counter this, LegalRecovery utilizes an aggressive 3-stage progressive notice pipeline combined with a criminal police complaint draft to systematically escalate pressure.
Stage 1: Advocate Demand Notice
We launch a highly authoritative demand notice on a practicing advocate's letterhead. This notice is served via digital pipelines (Email, WhatsApp) and physical registered post, giving the employer a strict 15-day window to clear undisputed dues.
Stage 2: Board & Investor Escalation
If ignored, we serve Notice 2 directly to the company's Board of Directors, key institutional investors, and startup partners. We attach daily interest calculations (18% p.a.) and outline personal director liabilities.
Stage 3: Pre-Litigation Warning
We deliver a final pre-litigation warning package, including finalized drafts of a civil recovery suit (Order 37 CPC) and an operational creditor demand under the IBC. This signals that our legal machinery is fully prepared to approach the courts.
Criminal Police Complaint Draft
Simultaneously, we provide you with a meticulously compiled criminal police complaint draft for Criminal Breach of Trust (Section 405/406 IPC) and Cheating (Section 420 IPC). Filing this at your local station creates immediate, non-bailable pressure on directors.
By moving through these four distinct escalation stages week-by-week, we make it highly expensive, legally risky, and operationally disruptive for the employer to continue withholding your money.
4. The Indian Statutory Shield: Know Your Rights
India's legal framework provides employees with robust statutory protections. Our advocate panel leverages these specific acts and sections to build a bulletproof case against defaulting employers:
- The Payment of Wages Act, 1936: Dictates that salaries must be paid on time without unauthorized deductions (Section 7). In case of defaults, employees can demand the principal amount along with interest and damages (Section 15).
- The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (Section 33C): Empowers individuals classified as 'Workmen' (non-managerial staff) to directly approach the Labour Court for recovery of outstanding monies due from an employer.
- Respective State Shops and Establishments Acts: Every commercial establishment must register under these state acts (e.g., Delhi, Maharashtra, Karnataka). They strictly govern working hours, leave policies, and provide local Inspectors who have summary powers to investigate salary disputes.
- Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972: Restricts employers from withholding gratuity past 30 days of separation (Section 7). Delays attract mandatory simple interest from the date the gratuity became due.
- Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC): Recognizes employees as Operational Creditors. Serving a Section 8 demand notice often forces companies to pay up immediately to prevent the NCLT from taking over their corporate management.
5. Why Free Online Notice Templates Fail
Many professionals try to copy free legal notice formats from online blogs. While this seems cost-effective, it almost always fails to produce results:
- Lack of Attorney Verification: Free templates do not carry the seal, signature, and letterhead of a registered, practicing advocate. Corporate legal teams immediately recognize these as amateur attempts and file them away.
- Incorrect Legal Citing: Online formats rarely match your specific state’s Shops & Establishments Act, your exact workman classification under Section 2(s) of the Industrial Disputes Act, or correct CPC summary suit clauses.
- No Systematic Escalation: A single, isolated letter sent via standard post does not build compounding pressure. Companies know that without automated digital tracking and week-by-week follow-up notices, the employee will likely lose momentum.
LegalRecovery provides you with attorney-signed, state-customized notice campaigns. We use real-time digital read receipts to track when the HR opened the email, leaving them with absolutely no room to claim they never received the demand.
6. Transparent Flat Pricing
Traditional advocates charge thousands of rupees per consultation and demand additional percentages (commissions) on the recovered amount. We believe this is highly exploitative.
LegalRecovery provides professional, attorney-verified salary recovery campaigns for a single, flat fee of ₹999. We charge absolutely zero hidden fees and take zero commission on your recovered money.
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*This pricing is only for 1 case which includes sending to 1 opposition and covers 3 notices & 1 police complaint.
7. The Evidentiary Checklist for Salary Recovery
To initiate your case on our platform, you will need to gather simple, standard work records to prove your claim. Our advocates will utilize these records to compile a flawless case profile:
- Appointment Letter / Work Contract: Documents your design, agreed monthly salary, notice period conditions, and work location.
- Salary Slips: Validates your monthly structural payscales and demonstrates any sudden, unilateral deductions.
- Bank Account Statement: Serves as absolute proof of non-payment by demonstrating the sudden cessation of incoming salary credits.
- Resignation Email / Separation Letter: Establishes the date your employment concluded and the F&F terms.
- Written Correspondence: Slack screenshots, HR emails, or WhatsApp chats showing your repeated requests for pending wages.
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Everything you need to know about the legal recovery of salary dues in India
Client Testimonials
Real experiences of professionals who recovered their salaries with us
"My former employer withheld my F&F dues of ₹1.8 Lakhs for six months citing 'client payment delays'. Team LegalRecovery deployed their triple-escalation legal notice pipeline. The company released my entire pending amount along with written apology letters within just 10 days of the first notice. Absolutely outstanding service!"
Aditya R. Sharma (Senior Software Engineer)
"After being wrongfully terminated overnight without notice or salary, I felt completely helpless. LegalRecovery guided me through the workman classification and sent structured notices detailing the Shops & Establishments Act violations. The management immediately agreed to a settlement, paying my 2 months' notice pay and pending salary. Highly recommended!"
Meenakshi Krishnan (Marketing Manager)
"A corporate client refused to clear my final milestone payments of ₹95,000 for a completed website design, claiming minor revisions were pending. The notice sent by LegalRecovery outlined the breach of contract under the Indian Contract Act. The client cleared the full payment within 48 hours. Incredible speed and legal efficiency."
Rohit Deshmukh (Freelance UI/UX Designer)
"I had outstanding salary and gratuity dues of ₹3.4 Lakhs from a logistics firm that went silent. LegalRecovery prepared a systematic draft including the Payment of Gratuity Act provisions. The Controlling Authority application and notice process forced the company to settle. I received my full gratuity plus interest!"
Karan Johar (Operations Specialist)
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About Our PlatformTeam LegalRecovery is a dedicated team of legal and financial professionals specializing in statutory money recovery, employee disputes, and corporate compliance across India. We resolve cases through structured, attorney-verified legal campaigns.
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