Advice Required: Regarding not being paid.

Hey All (sorry for the length of this message a brief summary is at the bottom of this message I know its super long lol),

I know there is a lot to read here but I just want to ensure all the information is available so I can get a accurate answer.

I have been doing some research, not much as I will do more tomorrow, regarding my current situation.

I have been working for a company called Green Deal All Round, in a door to door role. I was enjoying it and promoted to a team leader within 3 days. I have trained many people for them, and tried to maintain my usual score of a minimum of 6 leads per day.

The role was full time, and the basic pay was meant to be £200 a week or £40 a day. Ive worked their for 2.5 weeks and today was dismissed, which was apparently due to a problem with my leads.

I have never made any leads up and have always given all their customers the pitch I was taught. One of the managers there (should) vouch that I worked hard and so on, however I have been recently informed she is a partner of the business, which may mean she will not be entirely honest.

Anyways.. my main issue is they let me go today, which was a bit of a shock, but fine, it happens, however my MAIN issue is that they have not paid me, for the period I worked.

According to my contract it says we will be paid 2 weeks in arrears, which to my understanding is fortnightly, this time frame, officially elapsed last Wednesday, although my manager told me I would be paid on Friday just gone. I did not receive my wage, and spoke to the manager who "deals" with the pay and he said I would receive it by the afternoon. This still did not happen, I worked from 1- 8:30pm so I did wait until 8pm to check my account.

I then spoke to my line manager who was regularly out on the field with us, she told me to check on saturday, and if I do not receive it contact the other manager. He did not answer my call on saturday, or my text, and now ive been sacked. During this meeting with him told me there was a problem with my leads, most of which were people saying they are not interested, although my response to that is if they werent interested why would they give me there contact details and preferred time.

One issue im having is that I never received my signed contract back, but he gave me a blank copy today, and he is saying the board are only going to pay me commission for any of my sales and not my basic pay. My contract does state they can do this effectively, however if this took affect anytime after my first payment, I would of kind of understood, but the fact they haven't paid me anything, at all makes me think this is a "breach of contract".

There are a couple of others who have not been paid, that started when I did. Now I told him that I will not let this go as I am owed that basic salary, as I worked it, and he is going to speak to the "board" again (I am to call him on wednesday).

Am I right in thinking that even with there declaration that if there is a certain problem with leads they will only pay me commission, can be partially ignored as they haven't paid me anything at all.

Also another thing is he told me that none of my leads have generated, sales, yet he will pay me double the amount of commission for any of my other leads they will sell, which equated to £40.

Now I know for a fact one of my leads sold, unfortunately our leads go to a different building to be called, apparently. Now if he is proclaiming that I had no sales from my leads and I know I have at minimum one (as my line manager during a conversation showed me, just so by the way one of my lead sheets with an appointment booked), means that I could have 50 appointments booked and they are saying none.

To be honest I just wanted my wage, but I have a feeling this is going to have to be more, than what it needs to be. I really just want to know where I stand, or how I should go about taking action, if they don't resolve this.

Another thing my contract stipulates, is about the amount of leads needing to be generated I know there were some days I didn't hit target, but due to my role changing ie needing to handle a team it was on occasions harder to get my quota, although to be fair it only happen 3 days out of 13, which isnt bad considering one of the days was due to my manager taking me to different offices and travelling for most of the day on a bus.

So to summarise, my contract does state some conditions that can move me down to commission only, but not paying me even one days salary on pay day just makes me feel they had no intention to ever pay me, and not only that this "problem" with my leads only became a problem on the day I was due my pay.


I appreciate any help, comments, advice. Even if you just tell me I am numpty and there is nothing I can do.

Thanks in advanced