Repeat late payment on monthly wages

vucotich

Hi guys I hope you can give me some advice for my sister .
She is a lone parent with two children at home and has a part time job cleaning in a local hotel .
She is supposed to be paid monthly on the last day of the month but nearly every month this year they have paid the staff late .
more often than not have given no advance warning or even an explanation as to why or even when the funds will go in .
the first couple of times it was only a week late but this time it was nearly two weeks .
As a lone parent she already struggles to juggle her income and this has pushed her over the edge .
originally they were willing to give part payments in cash to cover direct debits but now they are even having to fight to get those .

as a result of this she tried to get a loan online via a broker lender and has been charged lots of fees so now the problem is even worse .
She is already dreading Christmas as they normally get paid on christmas eve .

surely they are breaking the contract of employment by not paying her on the correct date ?
Can she complain to anyone about this ?

They have even changed the name of the hotel twice but kept the same owners it all sounds very wrong to me ? but they are expected to keep on working even though they have not been paid for the month before .

thanks for reading

james_smitha

line up a new job, then speak to the existing employer

patanne

As an employee I would be very worried right now about the viability of my employers business. I would be looking for another job as already said. If the co goes into receivership she should be paid but if not she could have a problem getting redundancy/any payment from them. Have they changed the name of the hotel or the business name it functions under?

vucotich

Hi she has been trying very hard to find another job but so far no luck .I think they changed the trading name as well but not sure .