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Problem with work

31 replies

Blueberrymuffin03 · 08/04/2023 09:39

I've been working for a certain company and pay day has been and gone it's now bank holiday weekend.
I contacted the company and they said nothing to do with them contact the line manager which I have and he's completely ignored me.
I didn't sign a contract because apparently they don't do them and payroll and pin I had to wait for because I had to wait for a 'company' DBS
Any advice sorry if my post is not very clear.

OP posts:
Quveas · 08/04/2023 12:39

Blueberrymuffin03 · 08/04/2023 12:24

I know that's why I asked the others if they had one they just laughed and said no.

I know apparently it costs 90 pound my other one cost 40/50

I don't know about HR but when I phoned payroll they were less than interested.

Can you please explain this. There is only one DBS service and for an enhanced DBS it is £44. What is the £90 for. There are so many red flags about this employment that it sounds dodgy as hell. Let me guess - it's zero hours and some kind of care work? Whatever, assuming your facts are correct (I am not disputing them, simply saying it's a bit hard to read and make sense of) there really isn't anything that you can do if your wage is late - and that is assuming that you are actually due one because you may not be due payment yet. The payroll company certainly aren't going to talk to you - they need to speak to someone official such as a manager. Even if you are due payment, it takes several weeks to take any legal action, and short of that you can only ask.

Blueberrymuffin03 · 08/04/2023 17:12

Quveas · 08/04/2023 12:39

Can you please explain this. There is only one DBS service and for an enhanced DBS it is £44. What is the £90 for. There are so many red flags about this employment that it sounds dodgy as hell. Let me guess - it's zero hours and some kind of care work? Whatever, assuming your facts are correct (I am not disputing them, simply saying it's a bit hard to read and make sense of) there really isn't anything that you can do if your wage is late - and that is assuming that you are actually due one because you may not be due payment yet. The payroll company certainly aren't going to talk to you - they need to speak to someone official such as a manager. Even if you are due payment, it takes several weeks to take any legal action, and short of that you can only ask.

No it's not zero hours
No it's not care work

And I'm not working several weeks before payment my last job I got paid two weeks after I started so I don't think that's right that I've got to work two months before I get a payment.

I can't live off air and I'm not working for free.

I'll kiss goodbye to this one and find one with a contract and make sure everything is legit before I lift a finger - lesson learnt.

They didn't do bad out of me I went above and beyond done two peoples job and went to help others when I was done not bad getting that for free and I'll also be leaving the company a great review.

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Blondeshavemorefun · 08/04/2023 20:28

Major red flags saying no one had a contract

Legally have to have one think after 8w in a job

If you have no contract then you haven't a leg to stand on over hours wages holidays etx

Quveas · 08/04/2023 21:21

Blondeshavemorefun · 08/04/2023 20:28

Major red flags saying no one had a contract

Legally have to have one think after 8w in a job

If you have no contract then you haven't a leg to stand on over hours wages holidays etx

The law changed some time ago. The written statement must be provided, at the latest, by the first day of work.

OP, what your last job did or didn't do isn't the point - it is the terms of this job. Not being paid when you want it, as opposed to when their processes kick in, is normal. We don't know what those terms are, and neither do you. Where I work, for example, it's monthly pay, and if your start date misses the cut off for payroll, you might not be paid for six weeks.

The employer doesn't sound fantastic, and of course you can walk away if that's what you want to do. But nobody has said that you have to work for free. However, just because you expected to be paid doesn't mean that you were going to be. You may be paid on Tuesday. Or on whatever is "pay day" for this place.

Blondeshavemorefun · 08/04/2023 22:19

Written statement yes but then has 2 mths for a contract

www.gov.uk/employment-contracts-and-conditions/written-statement-of-employment-particulars

Tho I would never start a job without a contract signed before

sakura06 · 08/04/2023 22:30

I would contact Citizens' Advice or ACAS and ask for advice.

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