Docking pay at work for till discrepancies?

paulwf

As long as correct cashing up procedures are used (counted in and counted out with a witness and sole access to the till) there should be little to worry about. My business involves thousands of small transaction a month and the till is very rarely up/down over the £2.50 daily limit and over the month it averages out to a tiny variance.

For small amounts of change a lot of customers don't want it back (not very MSE!) so we put it in a charity pot to keep the till straight, in the OPs case as the variance is worked out as an average just put the excess change in the till and that should cover any shortfalls.

mcjordi

when i worked in £ stretcher many moons ago now one time my till was down by about £1 when i was questioned i said as i didnt count the float.. ( i started after the tills were opened) nothing could happen.. everytime i didnt count the float as the tills were already open it would always be down by about £1.. once i got earlier starts i could count the flioat and funny how it was never down again.

WPN

getmore4less wrote: »

even if over NMW there are limit on deductions.

need a good read and a google followup

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Good advice. Just to add, if the deductions take you under NMW over a reasonable period contact HMRC NMW helpline... as far as I am aware, if you are paid under NMW for a week it doesn't matter (from an enforcement perspective) as long as longer term the total pay divided by total hours worked is at NMW or higher. I don't know the period length of their calculation... hope someone can fill that in.

Just to note, when I worked in retail, in addition to that policy, going back a few years.... the supervisor had it in for me, to cut a long story short she got change from my till and made sure it was something like £10 down, at the time as she was a supervisor I trusted her calculations to be correct and never questioned it - after all she cashed up the tills each night - one day I got pulled aside (actually summoned to managers office) and accused of stealing £10. I never got any pay deduction nor did they call the police or search me as I volunteered for but received a warning, shortly followed by another before a week later I later decided to resign after it was the management decision to keep me on tills (because i was good on tills) when even after being ticked off and accused with 2 warnings i was still under the spot light (by then word had spread throught the store) for slanderous accusation of theft... so before I would be setup again I decided to go. Thats what you get for being on minimum wage at ****** poundland...

Strider590

Sounds like a fantastic way to !!!! off your employee's, turn them against each other and set them about watching each other like a hawk.

Manager is clearly a genius, who went to the "all employee's are dishonest and don't want to work" school of management.