law: Payment of Wages Act, 1936
  16.
  
  Single application in respect of claims from unpaid group
  (1)
  
  Employed persons are said to belong to the same unpaid group if they are borne
  
  on the same establishment and if deductions have been made from their wages in
  
  contravention of this Act for the same cause and during the same wage-period or
  
  periods or if their wages for the same wage-period or periods have remained
  
  unpaid after the day fixed by section 5.
  (2)
  
  A single application may be presented under section 15 on behalf or in respect
  
  of any number of employed persons belonging to the same unpaid group and in
  
  such case every person on whose behalf such application is presented may be
  
  awarded maximum compensation to the extent specified in sub-section (3) of
  
  section 15.
  (3)
  
  The authority may deal with any number of separate pending applications
  
  presented under section 15 in respect of persons belonging to the same unpaid
  
  group as a single application presented under sub-section (2) of this section
  
  and the provisions of that sub-section shall apply accordingly.