Company deducting charity entry fee from payroll?

[ghostedspooky]

Work for a big global company worth billions. About 300 people in London office. A handful of us are doing a charity run in June representing the company.

There is an entry fee of £75 which the company pays for. However they’ve deducted this from our June salaries and will add this back on to our September payslips.

This is ‘to make sure people actually show up’. AIBU to think this is pretty damn mean and infantilising?!

It’s probably at most, 1.5k that the company will be giving to charity - an absolute drop in the ocean to them. But for many people, particularly junior staff, having £75 pulled out of their monthly income isn’t great. Particularly as they have to wait until September to see it back - why not organise it for July? Or August?

Not great no, and did you sign anything to approve this?

Totally crap of them, and if you didn't agree to it first, likely an unlawful deduction of wages.

Thanks All. We didn’t sign anything, although we signed up to the event and apparently the company informed us in an email this was what they planned to do.

It’s my fault for missing that I know - but it’s more that they do this in the first place. They get all the ‘glory’ of staff wearing company sponsored t-shirts, but they don’t trust them to do something they signed up for?! And can’t pay people back for a June event until September?

They possibly have a history of sponsoring the event and then no one turning up....irnlarge amounts dropping out.
Seems reasonable to me.

They've probably been stung in the past. But they should have warned you beforehand.