Payday-aibu

This reminds me of a time I worked as an agency nurse in a nursing home. The carers (all of them) didn’t get paid at all one December. NH owner had jetted off to America for Christmas with their pay.
Nearly all the staff had young children and really needed that money.
The owner was a despicable little man.
My agency paid me. I spent most of my day off the next day phoning ACAS, citizens advice etc but nothing could be done.

They should have been paid 23rd December. I think they finally got paid 15th January.

Yes if payday falls on a weekend you should get it before the weekend. I would email your boss and ask for clarification. If for some reason there was a delay/ error the company should make you aware and apologise/ make arrangements to assist you.

No you rightly assumed it would be there by the due date as it should have been.
I suggest asking why it was late and asking for future pay dates.

YANBU
its a contractual right to be paid by the due date. If this falls on a weekend, it should be early.
Get in touch with your manager.
You are entitled to be paid on time. No excuses.

But if it's in their contract that payday is the 14th, they should be paid by then. It is absolutely not acceptable to pay people late, especially low paid workers, and especially without telling them.

If that was the reason then the manager should have sorted pay before he went on leave, rather than swan off for a nice break while his workers fretted about paying their bills.

The 14th was a sunday though and if your manager does payroll and was holiday maybe they just paid you on the monday instead so they could have their holiday undisturbed maybe?

Glad you got paid OP. If you or any of your colleagues had bank charges due to this, make sure you ask for reimbursement from your employer.

But make it clear that, even if no-one has been charged, late payment is not acceptable.

It could have knock on effects for people's credit rating, universal credit entitlement or leave them unable to pay for essentials. It doesn't matter that it's only one day, your contract says you should be paid on or before the 14th, so that's what they must do.

If it’s possible to move your direct debits/standing orders, I always try to set mine up to go out a few days after payday, so I’m not panicking if this sort of thing happens. But I would definitely talk to them and clarify what to expect and point out that it’s not acceptable to be paid late.

If you've gone into an unauthorised overdraft because of the late payment then ask your employer to reimburse any overdraft fees.

I think it depends on the bank. I bank with the same bank (same branch in fact) as my employer and if our second to last working day of the month payday falls on a Monday it always clears for me on Saturday. Colleagues with other banks get it on the Monday.

I'm paid on the 28th every month and, if that's on a weekend, it always without fail is paid on the Friday before. I imagine most firms, if not all, do this.

It’s probably their bank is different to yours , Halifax , Monzo are early if it falls on a Monday pay day , but NatWest would be after 12am on the Monday morning.

Any news OP?

Yes, it’s frustrating.

I worked in a sector with similar low pay / anti social hours. Payday was specified in the contract but we usually paid a couple of days earlier to allow for problems / leeway.

Then staff complained if we paid on the stated day rather than the earlier day.

I hope everything works out for you.

No dont contact your manager on a Sunday, theres nothing they can do today. Just see if it goes in tomorrow its highly likely it will and change your DDs so they come out a few days later.

So it won't help on this occasion but I would after this payment has gone out, change the date of your direct debits so that they are a few days after payday so you know you will have time to move money around.. alternatively move the direct debits or give work the account details for the one these come out of so the money is in the same account that things come out of.

OP I wouldn’t contact your manager about this today, there is presumably nothing they can do on a Sunday.

As this is likely to be an issue in the future is it possible to change the day your DDs go out to give you a few days leeway after payday? The two most recent ones I set up asked me what day of the month I wanted them to go out.

I have voted this way for the OP not to have asked her manager, especially if this was going to be a big concern. They clearly were worried enough to mention it to a colleague, so I would have asked someone more senior to check.
Where I work ours usually gets paid the day before if payday falls on a weekend, but that's with a local authority.

Sounds like an employer problem. Kick up a fuss on Monday. Payday is part of your contract of employment and not variable