After a worker dies or leaves the job, from what event does the payment deadline run, and what can move that deadline?
General information · Not legal advice
Material to check
In a practice file of this kind, we read the paper showing when the cause of payment arose, such as the resignation record or a death record, the payroll or severance calculation setting out wages, compensation and other monies, and any written agreement between the parties on a later date.
These are types of material to look for, not evidence already verified by PRO SE.
Where readings differ
One reading takes the main clause as written: where a worker dies or retires, the employer must pay wages, compensation and all other monies within the period the provision sets, counted from the time the cause of payment arose.
Another reading looks at the proviso: the deadline may be extended only where special circumstances exist and the parties agree on the new date, so an extension recorded in only one party's papers, or justified by no special circumstance, does not move the period on this provision's own terms.
Your judgment
What in the file would show both the special circumstances and the parties' agreement that the proviso asks for?
PRO SE does not make this decision or keep a case record on this public site.When to reconsider
We look at this again if the provision is amended to change the period, its starting event or the way an extension must be agreed, or if a court decision explains what counts as special circumstances.