Struggling to Get Paid for Recruitment: How Can We Resolve This Payment Issue?

Dear Seniors, kindly guide me on the below case, please. We have recruited a Design Engineer for a company based in the USA at Ahmedabad. It has been almost 7 months, but the company has not paid us our recruitment charges of INR 25,000. The HR Manager who worked there when we recruited that employee is no longer with the company, but he is still trying hard to talk with the employer to clear our bill. The directors are really uncooperative and say that they don't have the "Authority" to sign the cheque for our payment. The Finance guy has also prepared our cheque for a long time, but the director is not signing it. We have our Terms and Conditions signed by the HR who was working at that time with the company.

Please guide us on what to do and how we can get our payment. Awaiting your valuable advice and inputs.

Please help, it's really urgent. We need to take some action against this company, or else they will cheat other consultants as well.

Did you get the terms and conditions signed by the company authority? If yes, please write to the unit head and explain your situation. Whether the previous HR is working or not, you have every right to claim. Otherwise, send a legal notice.

Regards,
Alphonse

Hi Alphonse, Thanks for the reply. Yes, we have the terms and conditions signed by the company HR who was working there previously. The issue lies with the cheque signing authority (MD and CEO) as they are being unprofessional and refusing to release our payment. They are not signing the cheques prepared by the Finance department, which is causing me more concern. Please guide me on how to proceed.

Please suggest how to deal with companies that are not paying recruitment consultants after successfully closing positions, despite having an agreement in place. They are simply violating the terms and conditions of the agreement. In such a situation, how should we handle them? Can legal action be taken against them if all requests and negotiations have failed? Who typically handles such cases?

Thank you for your reply.