Overtime payment delayed advice please

[Chilledmummy2016]

Hi all,
I’m just looking for some advice or a bit of rant lol
i work part time in the NHS (admin) I’ve been working overtime for the last few months and nearly every month there’s an issue with it being paid. Either it’s not all there or it’s delayed and I have been understanding about this. We are due to be paid next week and yesterday my manager informed me that unfortunately it was processed too late (cut off date is 1st of month and it went through on the 4th) and now my overtime won’t be paid until September. From my side, all hours were worked by the 28th of July and my manager was aware of all hours done but they are blaming the approval team (due to funding) for delaying it. This is around an £300 which I have budgeted for school supplies/childs birthday and other things so I’m livid! When I have questioned my line manager and the manager above her they just apologised and said it’s just one of those things and how now it’s likely overtime could take 2 months (after it’s worked) to be paid! I requested an emergency payment and they refused. Im
not in the union and payroll have said any issues to speak to my manager.
is there anything I can do? I have contacted hr but they hadn’t responded as of yet.
thanks for reading!

Usually whatever overtime or unsocial hours are worked in the NHS gets paid in the month after it is worked so if the hours were worked in July, the managers should have gotten it in before cut off in August ready for payment at the end of August. If they have missed the cut off then to me there’s plenty of time for an exception to go through and for payroll to get it processed, payroll won’t be run till probably 19th or 20th at the earliest.

If you’ve consistently had it paid late then it’s not acceptable so your managers really should be making efforts to push it through. All instructions to payroll need to come from line managers so you could either raise it with HR or you could go above the senior manager to whoever manages them and ask that it go through because it has happened multiple times and you’re counting on that cash

If they don’t take it seriously then you could raise a grievance

Thank you for your reply.

im hoping to hear back from HR soon. I think the part which made me the angriest was that I explained I had budgeted the money and the reply was sorry it wasn’t the outcome I was hoping for!

Like most of the NHS we have been so overworked and understaffed and I know it’s paid overtime but the fact I’ve been helping out and just to have that response just made me angry!

i was due to do more overtime but I’ve informed them that I was stopping that effective immediately but reminded them
they owed me 15 hrs from this month already. The extra day was meant to be permanent at some point and in my final email I said I did say if that was an option I would accept it as I was looking for 30hr contract and hopefully that could be something found in this department.

Its just so frustrating!