NHS payroll - short week paid!

[Deleted User]

Wife recently went back to work after long term sick. Payroll managed to make a complete mess of her first months pay. £800 short. Worse still it has taken them 6 weeks to sort this out and its still not right.

But one thing and I'm sure its wrong. She works 16 hours per week. Her work week runs from Sunday to Sunday (With two days work anytime within this week).

So she advised them she would be back in work week commencing Sunday 19th July. So they said, ok that week Tuesday (21st) and Thursday please.

Now payroll are saying no you didn't start back until 21st so thats 5/7 of your normal weeks pay for that week. Surely thats not right? Shes still done her contracted hours for the week.

Lucky they didnt ask her to work Friday and Saturday then! Or it'd be 2/7 of a weeks pay. Anyone know what the legal position is for this?

Always hassle with payroll... Took months to sort out her pay when she was off sick.

glentoran99

surely it doesnt matter what hours she works in a week, she works 16 hours she gets paid her hourly rate for 16 hours that week? otherwise she actually isnt getting paid for her shift

[Deleted User]

glentoran99 wrote: »

surely it doesnt matter what hours she works in a week, she works 16 hours she gets paid her hourly rate for 16 hours that week? otherwise she actually isnt getting paid for her shift

Its complicated the way they work it out. Her 'normal' hours are 16 but they calculate it per days of the month worked.

clairec79

Your manager needs to input the date she was 'fit for duty' as the Sunday rather than the day she physically returned.

I wonder if she works for the same trust as me, last year when there was a massive !!!! up through payroll and inland revenue (completely payrolls fault) when you rang inland revenue (in response to the 3grand tax bill you got hit with) and said you worked for the NHS they replied with 'XXXX trust, you're the 123rd person I've spoken to this morning'

[Deleted User]

clairec79 wrote: »

Your manager needs to input the date she was 'fit for duty' as the Sunday rather than the day she physically returned.

I wonder if she works for the same trust as me, last year when there was a massive !!!! up through payroll and inland revenue (completely payrolls fault) when you rang inland revenue (in response to the 3grand tax bill you got hit with) and said you worked for the NHS they replied with 'XXXX trust, you're the 123rd person I've spoken to this morning'

Its been a complete shambles. She got redeployed to a different department. So no-one did this and original manager was completely uninterested....

Tried to explain to payroll but they are too thick to understand this.

pelirocco

Doesn't that work out at £800 for 2 days work ?

pelirocco

[quote=[Deleted User];69282803]Its complicated the way they work it out. Her 'normal' hours are 16 but they calculate it per days of the month worked.[/QUOTE]


What dates does her pay month run to and from

[Deleted User]

No the £800 was for something else. Don't even understand it. Basically they paid some random hours inc totally forgetting about July.

[Deleted User]

One other thing. They failed to pay the correct pay in August by £800 so no tax or NI was paid at all.

Now they've made this extra payment in September. Additional to normal pay. And theres a fair bit of tax and NI.

I know tax works out throughout the year and you can reclaim it at self-assessment time but isnt NI different?

i.e. Its monthly based. So if you get large income one month you'll pay a lot of NI, but if you get zero next month you'll pay zero. But it doesn average out.

If thats the case, then this large payment in september has meant increased NI payment?