(1) Payment of wages shall be evidenced by a document made out or certified by the employer or his representative and initialled by each worker or by by two witnesses if the worker can neither read not write English or French . These documents shall be preserved by the employer in the same manner as accounting documents and shall be made available, upon demand, to Inspectorate of Labour.
(2) The employer shall, at the time of payment, give the worker an individual pay voucher in the form prescribed by order of the minister in charge of labour issued after consultation with the National Labour Advisory Board.
(3) The fact that a worker has signed and entry of the words "in full settlement" or any similar expression either during the performance of his contract of employment or after termination whereby he purports the waive all or part of his rights under the contract of employment shall not be admitted as evidence of satisfaction.
(4) Acceptance of the pay voucher by the worker without protest or reservation shall not be considered as a remuneration by him of payment of all or any part of any wages, allowances or supplementary payments which are due him by virtue of laws, regulations, agreements or contractual provisions. Such acceptance shall not suspend the barring of an action of recovery as laid down in Section 74, nor shall it prevent review of the worker's wage account.
II - Privileges and guarantees of wage claims
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