No pay??

freakingout

Hang on. You started on 1st January? Are you not required to work a month in hand (like most jobs?) ie you get paid for January on 25th February?

kelloggs36

Thanks - I just wanted to know if I had any rights to the payment before next payday if they get difficult - no point in asking them without knowing what my rights are really as they may well try and fob me off!

kelloggs36

freakingout wrote: »

Hang on. You started on 1st January? Are you not required to work a month in hand (like most jobs?) ie you get paid for January on 25th February?

No, it gets paid in the month that you work - I started my first job as a teacher in the September (on the 4th but contract started on 1st) and I got paid on 25th September.

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re : rights - it would all depend upon your contract really. is there anything in it about pay each month?

I do agree with freakingout - most companies do make you work a month in hand (like my current company I work for) but I don't think this is the case with education.

I truly don't think they'll try to fob you off - but you do need to give them a chance. They won't expect you to live off fresh air, hell who could.. or would!

let us know how you get on.

tigtag02

freakingout wrote: »

Hang on. You started on 1st January? Are you not required to work a month in hand (like most jobs?) ie you get paid for January on 25th February?

This is incorrect - NOWHERE requires you to work a month in hand!

I will edit to add that obviously Jill's compnay do but it certainly isnt the norm.

freakingout

tigtag02 wrote: »

This is incorrect - NOWHERE requires you to work a month in hand!

I will edit to add that obviously Jill's compnay do but it certainly isnt the norm.

Has been in every single company I've worked for (6), so I think your post is incorrect.

tigtag02

freakingout wrote: »

Has been in every single company I've worked for (6), so I think your post is incorrect.

Doesnt beat my 12 of never having to ';)'

Seriously though, you will find that this is less common that you think - you have been bluddy unlucky with your employers

Roobarb73

Speak to them tomorrow and try and find out what has happened.

It would not be reasonable IMO to expect you to go nearly 2 months with no pay so if they don't sort it ask for an advance.

Savvy_Sue

I may be missing something, but IMO if you start a job on the 1st of the month and are then paid on 25th or later, then you ARE working a month in hand. If you're not paid until the end of your second month, that's 2 months in hand. If you walk out part way through month 1, you haven't yet been paid.

However, are you on a temp contract? I ask because I worked somewhere where temps WERE 2 months in hand: the idea being that at the end of Month 1, manager would confirm hours, and these would only then go to payroll which then ran mid month 2. I argued - successfully - that I was going to lose temps the moment I explained they wouldn't be paid for 2 months, because generally they were in urgent need of funds and couldn't live on fresh air! I'm not sure how we managed to work things out, but we did.

Where I work now, we pay basic at the end of month 1, and then work out what nights and overtime have actually been worked, and pay these at the end of month 2. It does cause a delay in issuing P45s when people leave, but since we can't work out what they're due any earlier than that I tell them to fill in a P46 at their new job - OP were you asked to do that?

hermanmunster_3

The NHS has started using some REALLY helpful pay roll companies who unless they get the details totally to them totally sorted by about the 2nd or 3rd of the month they fail to get it in that months pay....

One month it was all bank holidays at the beginning (easter I think) so the stuff didn;t get there until 5th.. 150 stressed out doctors.... they had to set an extra payment up PDQ:rotfl: