Common use of Time Limit on Claims Clause in Contracts

Time Limit on Claims. (a)--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 he, 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 one-hundred and twenty (120) days prior to the date the claim was first filed in writing.

Time Limit on Claims. (a)--No a) No claims, including claims for back wages, by an employee covered by this agreementAgreement, 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 hethe 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 one-hundred and twenty thirty (12030) days prior to the date the claim was first filed in writing.