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AIBU?

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To expect to bloody well be paid?

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Cocacolalight · 02/08/2012 14:38

Started working for a company on 1st June. Payment is a month in hand so I should have been paid on Tuesday for June's work. My payment hasn't gone in my bank though, I've contacted the payroll department and apparently there is an error with the system, but they can only do one bulk payment transfer per month so I will have to wait until the end of this month to get payment. So that means working for 3 months, including paying for childcare albeit not much, with no wages whatsoever.

I am so so angry

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RawShark · 02/08/2012 21:22

WHat they mean is they can;t be arsed. THey shoudl be able to run your details as part of the original payroll run and pay you separately via a single BACS transfer. I haev worked in payroll and we did this on a numebr of occasions even though adding someone to the original run made extra work and we had to rereconcile the whole thing. And if we left people unpaid for whatever reason we woudl make an advance via BACS. It's completely unacceptable to leave you in this position.

squeakytoy · 02/08/2012 21:22

Well the op should receive pay, then she would get a payslip. I would create merry hell too.

squeakytoy · 02/08/2012 21:26

We would never add someone to the original run, once it is done, it is done. We would do a manual calculation which would then be entered and adjusted on the next payroll run.

I have done payrolls of upto 10,000 people and that always meant there were some errors if the depots had not sent the information across for starters, or bank account details were wrong and the payment got rejected, but we would ALWAYS make advance payments to people who were affected. The first few days after payday were mostly spend doing just that.

RawShark · 02/08/2012 21:30

we only have about 50 people, so it's easy to rec one addition Squeakytoy before you think I am slapdash

squeakytoy · 02/08/2012 21:33

ah right.. ours would take a few hours to run, so no chance of redoing it!

TandB · 02/08/2012 21:36

Definitely the legal route.

I used to work for a largish law firm with a bitch of an office manager in my department. For some reason payroll often cocked up and didn't put salaries through, because we had a lot of overtime payments to be calculated. If it happened to you and the office manager liked you, you got an instant cheque. If she didn't, she used to try and tell you that you would have to wait till the following month.

She didn't like me. She tried that trick on me. I went absolutely ballistic for the first time in the 5 years I had been working there. I got a cheque.

She really didn't like me after that.

squeakytoy · 02/08/2012 21:40

I will never forget the month that a junior did all the overtime payments.. and put them as a negative... that was a fun month!

bumperella · 02/08/2012 21:47

ACAS. Free, sensible & knowledgeable.

If no joy, mention to your boss that HMRC have guidance on pay timings etc, and on payslips. They'll be sh*t scared of a tax inspection, so a mere polite innocent mention will probably resolve the problem.

HipHopSkipJumpomous · 02/08/2012 21:50

If they can't process you via the payroll they MUST be able to give you an advance against your payment at the end of August. Any reputable company with funds will be able to do this. It would be VU for them not to do this and you would have to question keeping this job surely?

Arion · 02/08/2012 22:58

This is an unlawful deduction of wages website here

and breach of contract, info from direct gov website about breach of contract and steps to get money owed here

TeamEdward · 03/08/2012 11:58

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smoothieooo · 03/08/2012 12:07

Completely outrageous... am interested to know if OP went to work today! I started my job on 18 April, but missed payroll and was paid on 25 May but to be fair, my office manager offered to write a cheque for April's money if I was going to struggle...

LindyHemming · 03/08/2012 12:11

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BreconBeBuggered · 03/08/2012 13:40

I've known overtime payments take a couple of months to filter through, as they're not part of the regular system, and I imagine the same applies to supply teaching and other ad hoc work. But not a bog-standard employment contract. Any updates?

x2boys · 03/08/2012 14:15

is this not an illegal detachment of earnings ? i work for the nhs and had a few cocckups over the years and when my wages havent been paid properly and payroll tell me they will pay me when they see fit i just sweetly demand it that day and on the three occasions iots happened i have been paid by the close of buissness same day .

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