is THIS legal.

[Tortington]

son is 17 becuase and only becuase he is 17 he fucks up occasionally and doesn;t hand in a "timesheet" which says he was on what street doin what job on what day.

he gets paid weekly his hours and pay are set

the pay doesnt depend onthe timeshett.

so when he doesn't hand it in he doesn't get paid.

can they just not pay him? at all.

Really depends on his contract.
Does he have a copy?

Sadly companies (esp smaller companies) can get away with all sorts of crap so long as its written into a contract.

If his hours and pay are set and don't depend on the timesheet he should get paid.
Unless it says something to the contrary in his contract as Jeremy says.
Do they have any other way of knowing he was working, for how long etc?

i used to have a job where if i didnt hand in the signed timesheet i didnt get paid
it was a nursing agency job

hard lesson for him to learn, but I'm sure he'll be more careful with his timesheets from now on.

if i ever lost my time sheet or forgot to get i t signed i could have gone back to the ward sister (or whoever in charge) and got it signed but thats at their discretion

unfortunate, yes

Yes, it is legal and we have threated it in the past to our employees as we are fed up of them not handing in timesheets.

If we don;t have timesheets saying what jobs employees were on on what day then we cannot charge our clients.

How are the human resources department supposed to know he didn;t have a day's holiday or go home sick or something?

Tim sheets are supposed to be in on a certain day, if they are not, you don't get paid until the following week. End of!

In fact, we threatened not to pay my own brother last week because he couldn't be bothered to hand in his time sheet.

thank you for your responses - the fact that the company cannot charge its clients without the timesheet makes sense.

Hope I didn't sound too arsy custardo. it's just we have had a bad time recently with time sheets and it has caused us a real headache.

ooh timesheets.

No advice for your lad Custardo, but this reminds of the fact that I posted all my colleagues' timesheets in the postbox this time last month.

No copies, no manager's signatures, no summaries, nada.

Did get them back thanks to one particularly fabbo woman at a sorting office, but still get the shivers thinking about it .

Hi,
I think it slightly depends on whether he's an employee or a worker but I know that the following applies to agency workers (might be useful to nailpolish who said she had her pay witheld by nursing agency...

"Employment agencies are bound by the Employment Agencies Act 1973. This makes it unlawful for an agency to charge a worker to find them work, it also requires an agency to inform its workers of the method of calculation of pay and holiday entitlement, and it makes it unlawful for an agency to withhold pay if a worker cannot produce a timesheet."

I work for Bupa- No timesheet, no pay.