Sacked! Not getting my final pay

AP007

BillyB wrote: »

She also owed extra money to the shop for the roll over payments at £12.50 each time and the lady did that 18 times, so I gather the OP gave her the laptop back for £140 when she owed a lot more.
Although, I think you did the right thing.

How do you think you did the right thing?

She owed the initial loan plus £225 roll over payments, yes?

You let her take it for £140?

fridgeracer

you are at legal rights to be paid the time you worked, regardless of your misconduct or not.

you may not be able to fight back the reason why you were sacked, but certainly - you can fight for your 3 weeks of pay they owe you. there is no way they will be able to avoid paying you.

tell them they will either pay you the 3 weeks they owe, or they will pay that + legal fees in court, because naturally they will lose - you cannot not pay someone for work they did even if you sack them. work done is work paid - period

paddedjohn

AP007 wrote: »

How do you think you did the right thing?

She owed the initial loan plus £225 roll over payments, yes?

You let her take it for £140?

The roll over would have been paid monthly so the customer would already have paid 18 x £12.50, a total of £225 just to keep the laptop in pawn.

AP007

OP what was the customer meant to pay?

The OP has said she was meant to pay a LOT more, how much more?

paddedjohn

AP007 wrote: »

OP what was the customer meant to pay?

The OP has said she was meant to pay a LOT more, how much more?

Where does the OP say that?

AP007

paddedjohn wrote: »

Where does the OP say that?

the post has been edited now I am sure the OP said that, nevermind

why did the op get the sack then if all above board???

skare44

Thanks for the advice, i'll do some more research on it...

As for the ladies laptop, she brought it in, we gave her £100 for it, think of it as a loan, so the shop keeps hold of it until the lady can get the cost/interest of the loan, £40 in this case, & the £100 loan amount, the shop will hold it for 28 days, however it will still cost £140 to get it back within this time. There is a 12.5% monthly fee for the shop to hold the laptop, to roll it over, each month this fee is payable for the shop to hold the laptop for you, these payments do not count towards the return of the laptop, they are basically interest payments. So the shop earned £225, plus the £40 for the cost of the loan.. £265 profit made.

paddedjohn

AP007 wrote: »

the post has been edited now I am sure the OP said that, nevermind

why did the op get the sack then if all above board???

Because she tried to be smart and make her own rules up.

AP007

skare44 wrote: »

Thanks for the advice, i'll do some more research on it...

As for the ladies laptop, she brought it in, we gave her £100 for it, think of it as a loan, so the shop keeps hold of it until the lady can get the cost/interest of the loan, £40 in this case, & the £100 loan amount, the shop will hold it for 28 days, however it will still cost £140 to get it back within this time. There is a 12.5% monthly fee for the shop to hold the laptop, to roll it over, each month this fee is payable for the shop to hold the laptop for you, these payments do not count towards the return of the laptop, they are basically interest payments. So the shop earned £225, plus the £40 for the cost of the loan.. £265 profit made.

So the customer had paid the £225 already? You haven't said

Caroline_a

Firstly you should be paid for the hours you worked, even if sacked for gross misconduct. These shops are really not so much different from payday loans, they just use people's possessions as collateral and charge slightly lower interest rates than PDLs.

I would say that the woman chose to put her laptop in there - you can get some very cheap memory sticks now to back up laptops for photographs, etc, and I think she probably took advantage of you with giving you the poor tale. Nevertheless, you broke a rule of the business, so the shop had every right to sack you. Perhaps this woman had done a similar thing before, hence why the manager was so displeased?

I would write them a letter laying out what hours you worked and requesting your final pay - if no joy then phone ACAS to ask for advice.