Should My Payslips Be Itemized?

LittleVoice

Dalelm wrote: »

That wasn't the question though.

My question is: Should my payslip be properly itemized and state exactly what I'm getting paid for and how much?

But your complaint was that you didn't know whether you were being paid properly. By "paid properly" I had assumed (perhaps incorrectly) that you didn't know whether you were being paid the correct amount.

From http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/detail?itemId=1073792635&type=RESOURCES

Content of a pay statement


An itemised pay statement must show:

• the gross amount of the wages or salary before deductions
• the amounts of - and reasons for - any fixed deductions, eg trade union subscriptions, or the total figure for fixed deductions when you have provided a separate standing statement of the details
• the amounts of - and reasons for - any variable deductions
• the net amount of wages or salary payable after deductions
• a breakdown of each part-payment - such as part by cheque, part in cash

So your payslips should be itemised (as the Union say) and they are.

clairec79

As you get double the amount of unsocial and saturday rate for Sunday check the units - do they write 2.0 for every hour you work on Sunday?

Dalelm

So your payslips should be itemised (as the Union say) and they are.

No they aren't itemized. Saturday and Sunday as I have already said comes under unsocial hours on my payslip.

As you get double the amount of unsocial and saturday rate for Sunday check the units - do they write 2.0 for every hour you work on Sunday?

Its hard to work out because they pay part of it one week and part of it the next. Whenever I ask about it I never get a straight answer.

steve1980

I would request that the Union (who I assume you are paying money to?) arrange a meeting with the payroll manager/your manager and get it sorted.

LittleVoice

Dalelm wrote: »

No they aren't itemized. Saturday and Sunday as I have already said comes under unsocial hours on my payslip.

They are itemised insofar as they show "the gross amount of the wages or salary before deductions" (in your case split into basic and unsocial hours). The other items leading to the nett pay are the deductions. If you were paid by more than one method (ie cash and a BACS transfer) that also needs to be shown.

You might want the gross wages split more than they have done but apparently that is not required by law.