No real advice, but a story of a similar situation that I went through about 18 years ago.
I worked for a small business that struggled with cash flow. Two owners and usually around three staff. Pay cheques were often a week late, a lot of the time we would only get so much of our pay and then it would be topped off to be complete a week or two later. Sometimes the entire paycheque was a week late. It was a hard time, for the company and personally.
Things were starting to look good but one employee quit and took them to court and they had to pay him so much a month for x amount of months. That didn't help the rest of us out. If he didn't do that the company would have gone through a good period where we always got paid full amount.
I was looking for employment but at that time finding work in IT was hard for a recent grad, so I stuck to gaining experience and hoping for pay. Finally I got out, right around when pay was starting to dwindle again. I left in September of that year and got my final pay just before Christmas holidays.
They lasted for another two years after I left before merging with another company. The two guys I worked for stayed with the new company for a couple of years before getting bought out so they could go to new adventures. That company has been around for several years now and I even use them for an IT solution. I'm seeing signs of that company also struggling and I can't wait to find someone else to take my business...
I didn't take any legal action, I was patient and understanding. I also saw how that one employees actions to take the company to court negatively affected the rest of us and I didn't want to do the same. I've also built a good relationship with those owners and I'm still friends with them to this day. They certainly weren't the bad guys, just bad at growing a successful business.
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