Section 15
Priority of earnings over other debts
Where by order of a court made upon the application of the secured creditor or the person liable under any of the provisions of this Act to pay the earnings due to any gig worker, or any money due to the person liable is attached or garnished, the court or the receiver or the manager shall not authorize payment of the proceeds of the sale, or of the money so attached or garnished, to the secured creditor or the debenture holder until the court or the receiver or the manager have ascertained and caused to be paid, out of such proceeds or money, the earnings of such gig worker, which the person liable was liable to pay at the date of such sale, attachment or garnishment:
Provided that the total amount of the earnings of any gig worker to which priority over the claim of a secured creditor given under this section shall not exceed the amount due by the contracting entity to the gig worker as earnings for any four consecutive months’ service.
(2)
For the purposes of this section—
“secured creditor” includes any person holding a mortgage, charge, lien or decree;
“person liable” includes any person who exercises his rights under a debenture of any property.