In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method, comprising receiving, by a user equipment, information for configuration with Grant-less Uplink Physical Uplink Shared Channel (GUL PUSCH) resources; attempting to transmit, by the user equipment, Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) feedback on at least one resources; performing a channel access procedure for transmitting Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) on the GUL PUSCH resources in response to a determination that the attempting to transmit the HARQ feedback on the at least one resources is unsuccessful; and transmitting HARQ-ACK on the GUL PUSCH resources in response to successfully completing the channel access procedure, is disclosed.