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After deciding to resign and request payment of the owed salary, the employee received no response to her verbal appeals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the support of LI lawyers, the worker prepared and submitted an official appeal to the employer demanding payment of all outstanding wages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, Labour Initiatives helped the employee submit requests to the Labour Inspectorate and the State Tax Service in order to initiate an inspection regarding the employer\u2019s actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result of these steps, the employee received approximately UAH 60,000 (about $1,500), covering three months of unpaid wages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An internally displaced person who had worked at a chain clothing store sought assistance from the Labour Initiatives legal clinic after facing wage non-payment and informal employment conditions. According to the worker, the employment relationship had not been properly formalized, and during the last three months the employer completely stopped paying wages. 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