Online Pay Slips

anamenottaken

Roobarb73 wrote: »

Yes I agree with this.

But as long as they comply with their legal duty to provide you with an itemised payslip, I don't think that changing the method by which they provide that payslip would be a change to your T&Cs of employment and therefore something they would need to consult/seek your consent on.

But the payslip has to be written and I'm not sure that an electronic copy counts as "written". I shall try to find out more.

patman99

Why not go into the pay office each and every week and ask them for a printed copy as
a) you don't own a computer (they can't ask you to prove this)
b) you don't have access to the internet
C) you have no way of printing them off.

p00hsticks

Mudd14 wrote: »

Every person is entitled to a summary of there payment/tax/NIC/ net pay etc.

The OP doesn't specifically say, but I suspect that they will still get a printed P60 at the end of each tax year that will show this.

Mudd14

p00hsticks wrote: »

The OP doesn't specifically say, but I suspect that they will still get a printed P60 at the end of each tax year that will show this.

This wont comply with the ERA;

Right to itemised pay statement
8 Itemised pay statement

(1) An employee has the right to be given by his employer, at or before the time at which any payment of wages or salary is made to him, a written itemised pay statement.
(2) The statement shall contain particulars of—
(a) the gross amount of the wages or salary,
(b) the amounts of any variable, and (subject to section 9) any fixed, deductions from that gross amount and the purposes for which they are made,
(c) the net amount of wages or salary payable, and
(d) where different parts of the net amount are paid in different ways, the amount and method of payment of each part-payment.

glider3560

If you use a computer at work, then you could print them there using their ink and paper. At one company I temped in, the permanent staff used to love pay-day as it meant they "had to print their payslip in company time instead of doing work"

DCFC79

glider3560 wrote: »

If you use a computer at work, then you could print them there using their ink and paper. At one company I temped in, the permanent staff used to love pay-day as it meant they "had to print their payslip in company time instead of doing work"

lol bet the printing took 2 minutes to do

liney

The company is probably doing this to cut costs, and maybe even for environmental reasons depending on their current policies, or even requirements of possible new clients who insist on green proceedures.

The company will have their own paper copy of the payslips along with the actual payroll records - the fact that the emails are only stored for one year is irrelavent as far as legalities go. Just save a copy on a USB, or press print.

Have you ever heard the phrase "Choose you battles carefully"? This one seems to verge on petty.

rupee99

anamenottaken wrote: »

But the payslip has to be written and I'm not sure that an electronic copy counts as "written". I shall try to find out more.

Recent legislation has provided that all documents that would have previously been in hard copy can now be provided in legible electronic form. Furthermore items previously requiring a signature can be validated electronically, e.g. use of a pin.

If a person with a legitamate right to "written" (or more properly printed) information does not have access to read it electronically that person has a right to require that information to be provided in hard copy.

In the OPs case he is being allowed to view for up to one year directly from the system, should the need arise he can either download the information or as the company to provide it for earlier purposes. I would be mose surprised if the new arrangements were meant to prevent such happennings.

PennyPincher_L

yes that is actually their right, to document as how they see fit, but you could always print out and file them by yourself!

anamenottaken

rupee99 wrote: »

1 - Recent legislation has provided that all documents that would have previously been in hard copy can now be provided in legible electronic form. Furthermore items previously requiring a signature can be validated electronically, e.g. use of a pin.

2 - If a person with a legitamate right to "written" (or more properly printed) information does not have access to read it electronically that person has a right to require that information to be provided in hard copy.

1 - could you tell me what legislation this is, please?

2 - what do you mean by "more properly printed"? Part 1, section 8 of the Employment Rights Act 1996, refers to "a written itemised pay statement" (my emphasis). And, of course, "written" is a wider classification than "printed".