'forgot' to pay me....

[poorandpissedoff]

Got my pay slip (monthly) today to find due to a massive cock-up on their part, they will be under paying me by £600 tomorrow. I've been told there's nothing they can do and i'll have to wait till next pay day for it to be paid. No compassion what so ever.

AIBU to want to cause hell over this. I refuse to be without half my pay for another 4 weeks! I won't be able to afford to live. Apparently is it the norm for people to wait till their next pay day, even when it's their fault. Norm for them maybe! Is it actually normal to wait?

[Jaxhog]

I suspect you spoke to a junior member of the payroll department, who doesn't know how to sort it out. Go to your Accounts Manager and tell them what's happened. I suspect you'll get a different (better) answer. If not, ask your Manager to ask them.

[Justaboy]

poorandpissedoff Have you got any further as yet?.

[tanya153]

Tell them that they need to roll back your wages and resubmit the payment, as you don't want it to affect your tax and NI contributions next month. But you'd be happy with a bacs payment as an advanced to be sorted on your next payslip if they'd prefer. They will prefer!

[megletthesecond]

disgrace that's brilliant .

[cherrybath]

And I suggest that you don't accept a cheque which would take days to clear, you need a BACS transfer which they could do immediately. If they are in financial trouble the cheque is no guarantee of payment.

[cherrybath]

Outrageous that they haven't paid you yet. They are legally obliged to do this. It happened several times to my hairdresser who was working for a salon run by a couple of lawyers. She was regularly paid late, but it wasn't so desperate for her as she and her son lived with her family so no major direct debits going out. I agree with a previous poster, I'd be worried about their cash flow. My hairdresser's employers eventually went into liquidation leaving the staff unpaid.

I suggest that you and as many other employees as possible join a union quickly, if there are enough of you the union will come in and back you up, telling you exactly what you need to do.

[Bloopbleep]

You don't happen to work for the BBC do you? They're famous for that trick.

[JellyBelli]

Contact ACAS;
The Acas helpline number is 0300 123 1100. It is available Monday 8am-8pm, Tuesday 8am-6pm, Wednesday to Friday 8am-8pm and Saturday 9am-1pm.

www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=2042

[EleanorAbernathy]

My wages were £300 short a few months ago - it wasn't actually Payroll's cock-up (a court had put an attachment on my wages - it was actually meant to be someone else with the same name and date of birth, so the court's cock up!) but they still managed to sort out a BACS transfer a few days later after an email from my manager to make sure I wasn't left short.

[user1470269632]

Huh, I very much doubt that if they over paid you, they'd let you wait until
next month to repay the excess! They'd want it back pdq!

[iMogster]

This happened at my place of work. It was a small Couture company and everyone didn't get paid. We ended up being paid about a week late. I was ok, but my colleague went over drawn when her direct debits went out and got charged by the bank. The company paid her bank fee.

[Memoires]

They have already had your labour. They've got no right to withhold what is in fact your money. Charge them interest.

[Memoires]

Exactly. Do that.

[DisgraceToTheYChromosome]

Take your most exuberant and destructive DC into work, put him in the payroll office and say "you have my housekeeping, you fucking feed him/her". A colleeague did this, and had cash transferred in 20 minutes.

[Iliveinalighthousewiththeghost]

It begs the question what would happen if you conveniently forgot' to go into work one day.
You scratch my back. I'll scratch yours and all that

[riceuten]

ask for an advance on next month's pay. Ask why they think younshould wait.

[mumindoghouse]

They are liable if you incur bank charges etc as a result of their breach of contract. They can sort. It is not normal to wait

[Namechangedforthis4]

Once our firm had a bit of a disaster and bank issues meant we were paid a day late the firm promised to pick up any interest and penalties that resulted. This was what they should be doing a making an emergency payment straight away

[SundaeLieIn]

Sorry, I haven't read all the responses so this may have already been said but they HAVE to pay you.

I run the payroll for 45 staff and occasionally make a mistake. I have two options: I can run a 'rollback' on that individual and rerun the payroll and submit an RTI adjustment to HMRC and then make the payment via bank transfer (immediate) or I can just manually calculate the payment and make a bank transfer and then put it through the payroll on the next payrun. Either of these options would take about five minutes. There is absolutely NO excuse for not paying people money that they have earned. It says heaps about how much your company values it's employees. Look for another job.

[CattyMcCatface]

No definitely out of order. You should get paid what you are due. There were major cockups in our payroll recently and I heard one lady went down to the offices (about 5 miles away) and demanded her pay. She said she wasn't leaving till she got it! She got her cheque!

[Memoires]

At the very least they should be able to give you a cheque for the 'forgotten' amount. They sound dreadful and should probably be shopped to some authorising body, but I've no idea if there is one, or what it is. If you find out, report them.

[InMyOwnWorld]

It happend to me few years back - for 2 weeks I have been with my ex-employer on the phone, via email etc. trying to chase my wages.
I ended up seek some advice and help to wirte a letter about 'unlawful deductions from wages' and the legal conequences that I will act on.

I left the letter in the office at 1pm, I had wages in my bank by 5pm that day!

[CatNip2]

^ - they owe him £600, they gave him an advance of £600 now, at month end he pays back the £600 advance but they also repay him the £600 they owe him.

Quits.

[LurkingHusband]

A decent company would give a you a cheque/make a bank transfer and you repay them next month.

At the risk of sounding a bit dim, why does the OP have any repaying to do ?

[Katherine2626]

A decent company would give a you a cheque/make a bank transfer and you repay them next month. If your company doesn't have £600 to spare they must be in deep financial trouble. I worked with a colleague who was paid only £130 or so one month - major panic, emergency payment made - and then the next month the same thing happened again. The Payroll department were practically on their knees grovelling to apologise, but the Manager arranged another bank transfer for him the same day. How are you supposed to live - do they imagine that you save £600 a month?