Common use of Time Limit on Claims Clause in Contracts

Time Limit on Claims. No claims, including claims for back wages, by an employee covered by this Agreement, or by the Union, against the Company shall be valid for a period prior to the date the grievance was first filed in writing unless the circumstances of the case made it impossible for the employee, or for the Union as the case may be, to know that the employee, or the Union, had grounds for such a claim prior to that date, in which case the claim shall be limited retroactively to a period of thirty (30) days prior to the date the claim was first filed in writing. Deductions from an employee's wages to recover overpayments made in error will not be made unless the employee is notified in writing prior to the end of the month following the month in which the payment in question was made to the employee. The notice will specify the amount of the overpayment, and deductions to recover such overpayment shall not commence until the pay period following the pay period in which the notice of overpayment was given to the employee.

Time Limit on Claims. No claims, including claims for back wages, by an employee covered by this Agreement, or by the Union, against the Company Corporation shall be valid for a period prior to the date the grievance was first filed in writing unless the circumstances of the case made it impossible for the employee, or for the Union as the case may be, to know that the employee, or the Union, had grounds for such a claim prior to that date, in which case the claim shall be limited retroactively to a period of thirty (30) days prior to the date the claim was first filed in writing. Deductions from an employee's wages to recover overpayments made in error will not be made unless the employee is notified in writing prior to the end of the month following the month in which the payment in question was made to the employee. The notice will specify the amount of the overpayment, and deductions to recover such overpayment shall not commence until the pay period following the pay period in which the notice of overpayment was given to the employee.