Question about pay..

pumplekin

LinasPilibaitisisbatman wrote: »

As for having customers at tills after 9pm thats poor management and the supervisors should be advising them to go to tills and start to vacate the store at 845/850ish.

Impossible at the store I worked for - the customers could still come through the doors at 8.58!

Look at Tesco on a Sunday - or at least my local one - the customers are often queing 3 deep at 4.00pm when the store is technically closed. And my local garden centre actually advertises 'shopping up time' until 4.30 when they actually close at 4.00.

robertjonesuk

the employer does not have to pay for the time it takes you to cash the till up. also, the employer has got right to require you to come to work with enough time to start working at agreed time. so if your rota says you start work at 4 you should be ready to serve customers at 4 not walk through the front door at this time.

withabix

robertjonesuk wrote: »

the employer does not have to pay for the time it takes you to cash the till up. also, the employer has got right to require you to come to work with enough time to start working at agreed time. so if your rota says you start work at 4 you should be ready to serve customers at 4 not walk through the front door at this time.

Show me where employment laws say this please.

fablad75

Back when I was working in a bank, we always stayed late to balance the tills - it was part of the job. We simply kept track of all the time we were owed, and once we had enough, took it as time off in lieu.

I know of other companies that work this way as well.

pumplekin

robertjonesuk wrote: »

the employer does not have to pay for the time it takes you to cash the till up. also, the employer has got right to require you to come to work with enough time to start working at agreed time. so if your rota says you start work at 4 you should be ready to serve customers at 4 not walk through the front door at this time.

I agree that the time you start work is the time you should be on the shopfloor and not in the changing rooms getting your uniform on. But if you are only paid until 8pm then equally you should have the right to stop work at 8pm. If the employer wants the tills cashed up then they need to allow you (paid) time to do it, or time off in lieu as the above poster has suggested.