Electronic payslips - safe/choice?

steveninthesun

My employer is going to stop our paper pay slips soon, and we will be emailed this info monthly, along with our personal details such as NI number.

Is this safe? If they email the info to someone else by mistake, can they use my NI number?

Can I say no to this?... I've never heard of a company doing this before. Is it a new thing being introduce elsewhere?

Thank you for any advice!

Beastface

We have had electronic payslips for years with no issues. However, they are not e-mail but accessed via a secure portal.

cardiffgrad1

I don't understand the big issue..your information can still fall into the wrong hands if you get paper pay slips. My paper pay slip got lost in September and ended up god knows where. If I'd had on-line paperslips this wouldn't have happened. As someone's said, they don't get e-mailed, you log onto an account.

F_T_Buyer

I had this at one company, it was in Excel and I only knew the password to open read only - my employer had a different password to modify. It was a small company though, so wouldn't have paid for any complicated system.

steveninthesun

Beastface wrote: »

We have had electronic payslips for years with no issues. However, they are not e-mail but accessed via a secure portal.

We've not been told much about the portal... how did yours work?

patman99

If you want a paper payslip, then print one off at work. It costs them for paper and ink rather than you.

saintjammyswine

Mine is password protected when emailed out to us. Was a little nervous at first but the system works really well and I now am not filling files with payslips!

scheming_gypsy

i just get mine emailed as a PDF document. No passwords or security as the likelyhood of your payslip email being intercepted by somebody who'll steal your details.... really is very slim.

cr1mson

Don't think it is a new thing as before my kids were born so 10 years ago ours used to be electronic. I much prefer them. There was just an icon on our desktop and you had to logon and there it was. Main problem is server used to crash on payday!

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bevanuk

What is someone going to do with your NI number? Pay your NI?
A payslip isn't even valid proof of national insurance.

Glennn

I started a thread on the issue a few days ago just to get an idea of what people think.

Personally I can't see why you wouldn't want them. Ours come in two forms, at the end of the month they are emailed out to the email address we put in the system with a password we have chosen. We also have the option of logging into the system/portal and looking back historically at all our payslips, and can print any I choose to.

As for safety..... passwords can be cracked, emails accounts can be hacked. But that is no less secure than the fact your paper copy can be stolen and opened just as easily.

EDIT: in fact i'd say paper copies are LESS secure, if it is lost anyone who finds it can open it without a password. And the equivalent to breaking into an email account would be breaking into your car/house and I am pretty sure more people are capable of breaking a window than hacking an email account :-)