Simple question about owing money to a previous employer.....

6thElement · 20 Dec 2010 at 15:43

You still owe me that tenner after you declared bankruptcy :mad:

lee32uk · 20 Dec 2010 at 15:58

JBuk said:
they would probably just hand it over to a debt recovery firm and the op could end up with a CCJ, etc

Highly unlikely

Deiwos · 20 Dec 2010 at 16:07

Had this with a job I once had. I owed money for taking too much holiday (I left part way through after taking 3/4 of my annual leave entitlement) and they requested £150 or something like that back. I stated I was happy to pay it back £5 a month which they had to accept as I was agreeing to return the money.

Make them an offer of repayment from a particular date for x months and they'll take it.

FabienO · 20 Dec 2010 at 16:10

How would you feel if they underpaid you instead?

JBuk · 20 Dec 2010 at 16:12

lee32uk said:
Highly unlikely

of course it's unlikely but that reply was in regards to if they did want to seek to recover the money

although in reality they'd probably send the boys round to his house and extract it from his backside instead, @op, not trying to scare you of course

MuvverRussia · 20 Dec 2010 at 23:34

Am I the only person who'd pay up? It's £100, not worth the potential aggro over it all otherwise.

dowie · 20 Dec 2010 at 23:40

R.O.S.S.I said:
Is there any limit of time a previous employer can ask for money which they have just discovered that I owe them?

I left over 9 months ago and have just now recieved a letter saying I owe around £100. Can they legally ask for this money back after so long?

AFAIK its up to 6 years for someone to claim money from you so yeah they can ask for it back.

If you owe it then you should probably just pay it, don't offer repayments as suggested by some of the ****** in this thread - just pay them the money.

Participant · 20 Dec 2010 at 23:44

MuvverRussia said:
Am I the only person who'd pay up? It's £100, not worth the potential aggro over it all otherwise.

Depends on personal circumstances. If I was strapped, I'd string it out probably.

Nexus · 21 Dec 2010 at 01:08

Robbie G said:
Depends on personal circumstances. If I was strapped, I'd string it out probably.

While true, he specifically signed a contract that has this clause:

Cyclescheme:

"Once signed, the Hire Agreement is non-cancellable following a cooling-off period of 7 working days following collection of the goods. This means that if an employee leaves or is made redundant from their employment during the hire period they are obliged to pay the remaining salary sacrifice amount in full from net pay i.e. without any tax exemptions."

He should have been well aware of this when he left the job and I'm sure everytime you see your bike it's a constant reminder that it's not really yours, at some stage you know you are going to pay the remainder or return it. It's naive to think it will just be brushed away.

Participant · 21 Dec 2010 at 08:51

Nexus said:
While true, he specifically signed a contract that has this clause:

Cyclescheme:

"Once signed, the Hire Agreement is non-cancellable following a cooling-off period of 7 working days following collection of the goods. This means that if an employee leaves or is made redundant from their employment during the hire period they are obliged to pay the remaining salary sacrifice amount in full from net pay i.e. without any tax exemptions."

I'm sure...but the employer and the courts (if it ever came to it) would likely end up agreeing a reasonable offer of repayment from the employee, especially since they failed to make the deduction from pay. So for this reason I see little point in repaying the entire amount in full if you're short on cash before Christmas.

Personally, I would, just to wipe the slate clean. But I can understand why some would not.