Wages being paid late?

This happened to me some years ago and I kicked up a fuss. They gave me a cheque for the outstanding amount. Make him get on to payroll about it and just keep pestering them, like you say it is their mistake.

He's so laid back, said I'm a bunny boiler ?

I am sure he has a right to moan!

When we had payroll trouble some people were overpaid and they could decide when they paid it back. However those who were underpaid had to recieve their top up to correct wage ASAP... they were all in unions though, so maybe this had some effect? Also this was their regular wage rather than extra overtime.

? my H would be the same. He should at least try to challenge it.

Thanks all. I've told him he sorts it, or I do! Haha

Ahhhhh hate when this happens.....As this is 'just' overtime I imagine they will be less accommodating as they will view it as an extra to usual wages. I have been given some of my wages out of petty cash or a cheque previously when all of my wages were not paid/paid correct amount.

I would challenge it, particularly as it is their error.

Our payroll dept will generally say "wait till next month" as a first answer but will make payments via CHAPS if pushed. They don't like doing it as it means manual calculations, and a fee for transferring the money.

If they do pay it in advance of next month he will most likely only receive 68%... basic rate tax and NI will be applied and then corrected the following pay run.

I would totally push this! a couple of hours is fine but not that amount. Their mistake, they need to sort it out. Good luck!

I'm confused with the tax thing. Will he be worse off having it all paid next month? I know it's 'only over time' but he only does he job because the o/t pays so well. He does at least 60 hours every month so it is like a regular income really (he is only contracted to 3 days).

It should balance out eventually but it's because they calculate tax on an annualised basis.

This used to happen to me nearly every month my old job. Not over time but because for the last 18 months I had run out of sick pay but was always off sick so not being paid for it, my wages were different amounts each month and they were never ever right. Some months they paid me zero. Si I would spend ALL of pay day on the phone to Pay Services getting it sorted. There are various ways they can do it. They can do a CHAPS payment but most companies have an upper limit of how much they will pay using this method (ours was £450), or they would do me an "advance of pay" so they would give me what I was owed and on next months payslip there would be a minus for the amount I had been given, but it made no difference to hat next months pay IYSWIM. I always got what I was owed though. One month they tried to not pay me and being the little hot head I am I had a paddy and walked out and got the train home. It was in my account by the next day. (I do not advise this method, my boss was used to my temper by this point after 8 years working together and thankfully found me amusing.) I bought him a bottle of JD to say thanks for helping me the following day.

So in short, no I dont think he should just accept it! Fight for your rights Mr HT! Boil them bunnies!

ETA: I was very ill at the time not just ringing in sick for a laugh. I was waiting for my medical retirement to go through. Just re-read and realised that made me sound like a twat.

At my work we only pay CHAPS payments if you have your basic salary missing, otherwise, if it the employee's mistake i.e. they had not put the OT on their timesheet in time then we would make them wait until the next month but if it is our mistake we would pay it via BACS as an advance on the next months salary so yes HT, I would get him to kick up about it.

Thanks all.

Niche he doesn't fill in a time sheet, the supervisor logs it on the system and it also goes from his card when he clocks in and out. So what has happened is the supervisor hasn't logged the overtime, he asked them yesterday how many hours he will be gettin paid (they won't tell him until late month) and there was a discrepancy so they checked back on the system at his clocking in and out.

He said the girl who does the payroll is going to see what she can do. I think he's scared of me ringing them up ?

Sorry, I didn't mean he had done his timesheet wrong, I was just using that as an example of how it may be the employee's fault at my work. In this instance I would say it is totally his works fault and they should sort it out asap.

Many moons ago I did payroll. It would be too late to go in with the normal pay, that's true. But they should be able to run an extra payroll for the discrepancy. I wouldn't think it would be done usually but as it's their error they should.

My payroll ran so that the payslips were given out the day before the money was due to be in the bank (we had to "send" it a few days in advance). Then, 2 days after pay day any discrepancy pay would be paid.