Hi All, I’m from India, I’m working as freelancer( Software Engineer). I worked for one of Indian start-up as freelance software consultant for 7 months. Unfortunately, I don’t have any legal agreement and company owner pay me for first two months and now he refused to pay me for my work. I aske…

Well first of all learn from the lesson always get some legal work done. Was this any kind of internship ? Do you have any sort of legal work like offer letter, or any kind of document ? Legally there should be a proof of the payment you received for the first 2months on that basis you can regist…

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I’ve been there, moments when a client even though I have their root account to their servers do some crazy stuff and act like they’re not gonna pay and flat out say they won’t everytime I chose to do the right thing and even though deep down I just wanted go ssh into the server and rm -rf / in the …

While what happened with you is very disappointing, this is always the risk while working with start ups. Most of them end up not paying salaries. If you have an offer letter or something which proves that you worked for them, then may be you can consult a lawyer. But that again depends on how much …

Very insightful Sachin. I am in a similar position. I will consult a lawyer & discuss above sections.. I have a PO, Sale order/Invoice, Half payment received in company account & half stuck.. Customer says they have no money & as soon as they get their payments, they will release our payments. I hav…

Thank you all for your quick response and support.

Isn’t there a escrow for these kind of freelance work ? because when you are a freelancer in india , people and government (whichever the party) here are not known for their trust !!!

Hi @Sachin_Jadeja , Thank you for your support. I was working for this company as Sr. Software Engineer, I have 3+ year’s experience in Software Development, so this is not internship, I was leading his project. Unfortunately I don’t have any legal documents or offer letter, but have 2-3 transacti…

You are a good guy Robert. I’ve got to admit that I would not be quite so accommodating. Of course, it depends on why they cannot pay. For example, if the company is having a cash-flow problem then of course you want to help. But, if it is a case where the client cynically took the contractor on, al…

@TecCoder If you cannot sell the diamond to that men then look at the competition. You have the source code Sell it to similar Companies, Make the source code public. And i think you are in a good position to challenge him legally. If you take any legal actions as there is no contract you can ask …

@sfhussain8 2years are a lot. Challenge them legally dont keep up with their shit.

My client is not paying me for my freelance work. What should I do?

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Aina December 4, 2020, 2:52pm 2

It’s not a solution but it will motivate you, see if you get any idea to deal with him/her!

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My client is not paying me for my freelance work. What should I do?

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