Legal Notice for Unpaid Salary / FnF Dues

When an employer withholds salary or your full-and-final settlement, a formal notice is the first serious step. Generate a clear demand notice for ₹299, preview it free, and send it properly.

Your ₹299 kit includes:

  • ✓ Formal salary-dues notice drafted from your facts
  • ✓ Code on Wages, 2019 grounding
  • ✓ How to serve: Registered Post, email to HR, proof checklist
  • ✓ Evidence-pack checklist: payslips, contract, chats
  • ✓ Labour-authority escalation playbook
  • ✓ Settlement-ladder next step if they respond

Instant download · One-time fee · No subscription. Stamp paper is not required for a legal notice.

A formal legal notice in your own name — the recognised first step, and the one that resolves most disputes before they ever reach a lawyer or a court. Sent by Registered Post A.D. with proof of delivery.

Agreements.co.in is a document service, not a law firm — we don't give legal advice or guarantee outcomes. You send the notice in your own name and confirm every detail before you pay.

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How sending a legal notice actually works

The law this document is drafted against — sources last read 25 August 2026

We last opened the official published source for each provision below on 25 August 2026 and confirmed the text we cite is still there. That is a check of the source, not advice about your situation.

  • Wage claims must generally be raised within 3 years of the claim arisingSection 45(6), Code on Wages, 2019 — an application to the authority may be filed within three years from the date on which the claim arises, and the authority may entertain a later application on sufficient cause being shown; Limitation Act, 1963 for a civil suit on the contractRead the source — opened 25 August 2026
  • Original certificates or documents handed to an employer are a bailment; the employer must return them once their purpose is servedSections 148 and 160, Indian Contract Act, 1872 — a bailment is the delivery of goods by one person to another for a purpose, on a contract that they be returned once that purpose is accomplished; the bailee's duty is to return them without demand as soon as the time for which they were bailed has expired, or the purpose has been accomplished. Section 27 of the same Act voids an agreement in restraint of trade, which bears on the enforceability of any bond conditioning release on completion of a service period.Read the source — opened 31 August 2026

“But we never signed anything.”

A written contract is not what makes money owed to you. Bank transfers, UPI history, invoices, delivery proof, a bounced cheque, and WhatsApp or email where they accept the amount are all evidence, and a notice can be built on them. Most people who tell us they have “nothing in writing” turn out to have a payment trail. The form asks you for exactly what you do have.

You (the Employee)
The person whose salary or FnF settlement is unpaid.
The Employer
The company or person who owes you the dues, and where the notice will be delivered.

Registered office or office address where the notice will be posted.

Your employment and the dues
Describe the job, the period unpaid, and what you are owed.

e.g. your last working day or the missed payroll date.

Best estimate is fine.

Only if they are withholding your originals — e.g. a bond dispute. Naming them here demands their return in the notice, whether or not any money is also owed.

How long they get to pay or respond. 15 days is customary.

Optional. Emails/HR tickets already raised.

Optional but worth filling. The town or city of the office or site you worked at, or where you were to be paid. Courts and labour authorities there can hear the case, and an employer's first move is often to say you went to the wrong forum. Left blank, the notice says nothing about it.

Optional — one clause, in your own words. The clock on a wage claim starts when the salary FELL DUE and was not paid, not on the day you resigned, so describe the non-payment.

Choose delivery
Pick the notice kit only, or have the notice sent for you.

Evidence & Supporting Documents

Add anything that supports your claim — an invoice, a WhatsApp chat, a payment screenshot, even a handwritten notebook. This is optional, but a notice backed by proof carries far more weight.

Your evidence: Nothing added yet

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You have not added any evidence yet. You can still send the notice — but the items below are what a lawyer asks for first, and gathering them now is far easier than later.

What to gather

  • Your appointment letter or offer letterMost importantIt proves you were employed and on what salary. Almost every dispute about dues is answered from it.No letter? An email confirming the role and pay, or the messages where it was agreed, will do.
  • Payslips or salary credits showing what you were normally paidMost importantThey establish the monthly figure the unpaid months are calculated from.Bank statements showing the salary arriving each month do the same job.
  • Your resignation or termination letterIt fixes the last working day, which is what the notice pay and full-and-final settlement are counted from.The email or message ending the employment works just as well.

This is a checklist of what a lawyer usually asks for first — not a judgement about your case, and never a reason you cannot send the notice. We go by how you describe each item; nobody opens your files to check them, so tick things off honestly — the list is only useful if it is true. You can add more evidence at any time, and only you and our team can see what you upload.

No evidence added yet

Evidence & Supporting Documents — FAQ
Most people hesitate simply because they don't know what documents are needed. Here are the answers.

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Nothing is charged at this step. This is a formal demand notice, not a court filing.