Same day wage admin fees

russ1982

I am an adhoc worker who is normally paid every Friday with the wages being processed on a Tuesday. I have been informed by one of my coworkers that payroll has told him that he is being charged 1 third of his pay as an admin fee for same day wage processing due to the Christmas period. My wages are shorter than i expected but my payslip hasn't arrived for me to check properly. Is this fee legal?

sniggings

russ1982 wrote: »

I am an adhoc worker who is normally paid every Friday with the wages being processed on a Tuesday. I have been informed by one of my coworkers that payroll has told him that he is being charged 1 third of his pay as an admin fee for same day wage processing due to the Christmas period. My wages are shorter than i expected but my payslip hasn't arrived for me to check properly. Is this fee legal?

yes if you agreed to it in anything you signed and no if you haven't, even if you did agree to it, they still have to pay to the min wage, so if this fee makes your wages drop lower than the min wage they can't charge it.

Either way I would be looking for a new job as that is disgusting.

keyser666

sniggings wrote: »

yes if you agreed to it in anything you signed and no if you haven't, even if you did agree to it, they still have to pay to the min wage, so if this fee makes your wages drop lower than the min wage they can't charge it.

Either way I would be looking for a new job as that is disgusting.

Why is that disgusting? you have no knowledge of what the OP's colleague was paid for a start.

Secondly the fee for this would be taken from the net pay so the min wage will not come into the equation, it is not uncommon for some companies to be charged upto £35 for a CHAPS fee, who should bare the cost of that?

ohreally

russ1982 wrote: »

My wages are shorter than i expected but my payslip hasn't arrived for me to check properly. Is this fee legal?

Regardless of the fee being legal, the employer has a duty to provide an itemised payslip on or before the payment of wages. ERA 8(1).


http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/18/part/I/crossheading/right-to-itemised-pay-statement

marybelle01

But, TBF, some information might help. The OP said this was "same day processing" - which sounds quite possibly like a special payment system. Normally, payments take an amount of time to reach an account and be cleared for spend. Weekends and bank holidays are not generally included in those periods. Tuesday was Christmas Eve. Which means that a wage payment processed that day may not hit an account until Tuesday 31st, depending on the banking system used. If people wanted money available before that - "same day wage" - and asked for that, then that may involve a fee. Honestly, I don't know. The employer does, who is who the question needs to be addressed to. We don't know. You don't know. But they do. Then if they have done something you didn't agree to, that is the time to start asking questions.

russ1982

marybelle01 wrote: »

But, TBF, some information might help. The OP said this was "same day processing" - which sounds quite possibly like a special payment system. Normally, payments take an amount of time to reach an account and be cleared for spend. Weekends and bank holidays are not generally included in those periods. Tuesday was Christmas Eve. Which means that a wage payment processed that day may not hit an account until Tuesday 31st, depending on the banking system used. If people wanted money available before that - "same day wage" - and asked for that, then that may involve a fee. Honestly, I don't know. The employer does, who is who the question needs to be addressed to. We don't know. You don't know. But they do. Then if they have done something you didn't agree to, that is the time to start asking questions.

I never agreed to any fees, especially a % of a wage. It won't bring it under the min wage because the third of my wage will be about £200. A lot of money for any fee

marybelle01

russ1982 wrote: »

I never agreed to any fees, especially a % of a wage. It won't bring it under the min wage because the third of my wage will be about £200. A lot of money for any fee

I didn't say you did agree to any fees. I said that you do not know that you have been charged a fee for anything, and until you have that information you do not know why your wages may be short, if they are short; and that just because someone else was charged a fee doesn't mean they didn't ask for a special payment to be made which attracts a fee. Which is why I said I don't know and right now, neither do you, so you need to find out from the employer. Then the situation can be addressed - right now it can't because there is no information.