Help needed re: wages

[Shiraz]

I started a new job on the 16th of last month which is salaried not hourly paid.

Payment is made monthly on the 30th by Bacs into your account.

Therefore i expected to recieve 9 days pay today! When i opened my wage slip they have kept one weeks wage back as 'a week in hand' which you recieve when you have left after handing in your required notice.

I have never had this before when paid monthly as you are obvioulsly paid a month in arrears...if you see what i mean.

So i've only recieved 4 days wages rather than 9....can my employer do this?

I've called acas who have said i need to raise a grievance blah blah....

But it's a pain in the ass as i was relying on that money what with dp being out of work until he starts i new job that money is very needed...bugger!!!

Cheers Ladies,

Becs xxxx

When i say very needed that's all we have to live on until i get paid next month, as dp has hopefully got a new job but is paid monthly, so the JSA he was trying to claim after unfailry losing his job may be stopped and TC have not sorted our claim out yet!

Ooooh it's a nightmare...... to say the very very least/////

Was the salary system not eplained to you when you started ? I would have thought that there are several ways of handling wages but it should be made clear exactly how it will be done when you sign a contract / agree to the job.

hmm, could be time to join a union.

Nope i was told it was monthly pay and that we were paid on the 30th. The wages clark told me i should of been told at the time!

I just cannot understand if yu are paid a month in arrears why they need to hold your first weeks wage back until you leave the company.

I thought a week in hand it was as in if you are paid weekly you do not get paid that Friday but the following week. So i cannot understand if you are not paid until the end of the month why they need to keep an extra weeks pay! hmmmm

Must admit, it sounds a bit odd to me. Ive never heard of this before, but maybe Im just too sheltered!

Withholding a weeks pay with the excuse that you "should have been told before" is just pathetic. I was recently recruited (not by my current employer!) with a pack of lies. If they'd told me the truth, I wouldnt have taken the job. I left after 6 months.

I guess now is not the moment that you want to be spending anything extra, but I'd seriously consider the union, in case of any future problems with this employer. For example, do you have it in writing anywhere that they actually are going to pay this money when you leave? Can you ask discretely around to see if it's normal practise in this company, and if other people have got their money back when they left?

I have heard of this before. It is because you are paid hourly so they cannot calculate your days/hours worked right up to pay day and instead have a cut off point (in this case a week before). They are technically incorrect to say it is your week in hand that you haven't been paid because you will get paid for it, just not until next month IYSWIM. So for example payroll might run from beginning of the month to the end but hours paid (because they will need to be submitted in advance to calculate tax and NICs etc) might run the 20th to the 20th. A pain for you but the only option when you pay hourly but on a monthly basis. They should have explained it better and preferably before you started!

I'm not paid hourly i am salaried! This is what i do not understand!

I have never had this before, and dp has never heard of it either!

If you are paid a salary monthly in arrears of what you have worked then why would they need to keep your first weeks wage until you left?

I now only have 163.00 to live on for a family of 3 for the next 5 weeks. I was expecting £400 which would of just seen us through! Nothing was mentioned and they haven;t given me a copy of my contract yet.

Dp is out of work (although has two job offers and he will not get paid for 5 weeks either after he starts)...so his JSA has been stopped! and tax credits are very very low.

I don;t want to go into work today.....i just do not want to go back at all. I have had no training was left on my own for 2 hours on my second shift (bearing in mind i did nothing for the first 4 hours of my first shift as they were not ready for me). I was left on my own on the third shift when the MD shouted at me twice down the phone..as i was busy with two guests and taking a reservation i didn't answer his call. And the attitude of the staff are really awful..the duty managers are not intersted and you get talked to like rubbish by the managers. I thought i'd love this job i am so upset!

Thinking of ringing my old agency up and asking them for work. I pick things up so quickly, and turned two other jobs down for this one! I'm so annyoed with myself

So i won't get this money back until my final pay cheque..iyswim,,they do not add it too next months wages..as it's salaried...does that make sense??