My son has not been paid for his work -- what to do???

hcb42

most hotels will do two payment runs a month at least, so if he gets the invoice in - terms 14 days - and follows it up with a phone call to confirm receipt, I am pretty sure he will be paid. I am assuming he hasnt done this and there is no dispute over payment. The office will be dealing with 1000s of invoices and I am pretty sure a hotel of this calibre will not be intentionally trying to deprive suppliers of payment.

arunadasi

I made a mistake: at the Langham hotel he was not self-employed, but an employee. It's at his other (present) job that he's self-employed.
Does this change anything?

suicidebob

Seems strange that he would be an employee for 2 days. You did say he was working freelance, this would infer that he would have to invoice them for his time.

If he was an employee, did he have an induction? Did he complete starter forms? Did he pass over bank details, identification?

On another thought, I'm amazed at the number of threads on MSE starting "My son / daughter...."

Hammyman

Yes, massively. He has to be paid by the time the next pay date is due. If they pay monthly as normal, he probably wouldn't get paid until the following months pay date. However that has been and gone so he needs to start pushing and mentioning employment tribuneral.

arunadasi

suicidebob wrote: »

Seems strange that he would be an employee for 2 days. You did say he was working freelance, this would infer that he would have to invoice them for his time.

If he was an employee, did he have an induction? Did he complete starter forms? Did he pass over bank details, identification?

He wasn't freelance; he was (or should be!) paid on a basis of how according to hours he actually worked with clients, but as an emplyee.
They parted company under mutual agreement. He hated it there; he is over-qualified for a start, and he hated the fake smiley-smiley act they wanted him to put on. They even had the cheek to ask him to come back for one session, as a client had requested him personally.

bendix

suicidebob wrote: »

On another thought, I'm amazed at the number of threads on MSE starting "My son / daughter...."

I'd noticed that too.

Our are young people incapable of working out problems for themselves, or are today's parents overbearing and intrusive?

Please discuss

saintjammyswine

My son thinks so too.....

suicidebob

bendix wrote: »

I'd noticed that too.

Our are young people incapable of working out problems for themselves, or are today's parents overbearing and intrusive?

Please discuss

Plus you won't get good advice if the source is 2nd / 3rd hand information.

arunadasi

bendix wrote: »

I'd noticed that too.

Our are young people incapable of working out problems for themselves, or are today's parents overbearing and intrusive?

Please discuss

I can't speak for anyone else but in my case, it's simply that I have a long-standing MSE account and post here regularly, whereas he does not have an account, and isn't a forum-type anyway. To create an account just to ask one question seems a bit overenthusisatic - nobody likes being a newbie!
Of course, he could have simply signed on using my account and posted on his own behalf. If you prefer that, I'll do so next time (if ever) he has a question.
Otherwise, no big deal. Just a mum trying to help out.

suicidebob

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