Company refusing to pay me hours owed after leaving.

matthab · 8 Oct 2010 at 07:59

wow, well done mate!!!

Locky · 8 Oct 2010 at 08:03

chumpit said:
Ok people the co-op finally paid me last night my owed wages

Did as people surgested and went to the cab, who helped me write a letter of agrievance, which they ignored. So cab sent them a letter outlining the law on the subject and giveing them a week to pay or they would start an employement tribunal.
Amazingly within 2 days of reciveing the letter (recorded delivery) my wages were placed into my account

Thanks everyone who gave sane advice.

Very nice, now go and do a wee on the managers car.

Fr0dders · 8 Oct 2010 at 08:04

chumpit said:
Ok people the co-op finally paid me last night my owed wages

Did as people surgested and went to the cab, who helped me write a letter of agrievance, which they ignored. So cab sent them a letter outlining the law on the subject and giveing them a week to pay or they would start an employement tribunal.
Amazingly within 2 days of reciveing the letter (recorded delivery) my wages were placed into my account

Thanks everyone who gave sane advice.

Its always the way.

They cant withhold wages. Glad to hear you got your money

Pookie Bear · 8 Oct 2010 at 08:59

chumpit said:
Ok people the co-op finally paid me last night my owed wages

Did as people surgested and went to the cab, who helped me write a letter of agrievance, which they ignored. So cab sent them a letter outlining the law on the subject and giveing them a week to pay or they would start an employement tribunal.
Amazingly within 2 days of reciveing the letter (recorded delivery) my wages were placed into my account

Thanks everyone who gave sane advice.

Always nice to hear of a good result.

Little surprised that the CAB was banging on about an ET when the next obvious step would have been pre-claim conciliation but you got what you wanted, so no worries

apatia77 · 8 Oct 2010 at 09:02

At least someone got help from CAB, I went there twice in the last 10 years and they were useless.

Showboat · 8 Oct 2010 at 09:08

Excellent result

Twentyone · 8 Oct 2010 at 12:15

Good to hear

BennyC · 8 Oct 2010 at 12:41

Run into his fist. Sue him for assault.

Edit: Glad to hear you got your wonga.

Pestilence · 8 Oct 2010 at 12:42

Now burn it. Burn it aaalllllll.

Amnesia · 8 Oct 2010 at 12:53

chumpit said:
Ok people the co-op finally paid me last night my owed wages

you showed them they cant keep treating you like a chump.

The Funktopus · 8 Oct 2010 at 13:24

What about in the case of overpayment? What does the law say an employer can do in those circumstances?

Knubje · 8 Oct 2010 at 13:29

Well played with the result. Nice one for updating the thread.

Now go find your managers car and curl one out on the bonnet.

cHk4 · 8 Oct 2010 at 13:32

Pestilence said:
Now burn it. Burn it aaalllllll.

+1

Egon · 8 Oct 2010 at 17:57

Knubje said:
Well played with the result. Nice one for updating the thread.

Now go find your managers car and curl one out on the bonnet.

This... well, except the taking a dump part !

Castiel · 8 Oct 2010 at 18:44

singist said:
And this sort of thing is why people join unions.

I was thinking exactly that same thing. People say unions are an anachronism and are no longer necessary, that legislation protects the worker enough.

Well that is obviously not the case.

Addicted · 8 Oct 2010 at 18:53

even though they paid, beat them with a fork anyway, show them they should've paid earlier and now owe you interest!

Pudney · 8 Oct 2010 at 19:02

The Funktopus said:
What about in the case of overpayment? What does the law say an employer can do in those circumstances?

They can reclaim it (take it out of your account).

Castiel · 8 Oct 2010 at 19:11

Pudney@work said:
They can reclaim it (take it out of your account).

No, an employer cannot remove funds from your bank account. They would request the money be repaid and then take legal action to regain the money, I doubt that in the majority of cases this would happen as overpayments are rare and rarely for an amount financially viable for recovery. Remember that if you have not returned the overpayment within a reasonable amount of time it can be construed as theft and as such is against the law obviously.

In the US this is different, but the UK the BACS system only allow payments in one direction, they can stop the BACS transfer within a given time (the first two days before the money reaches the account on the third day), but that is all they can do.