Parental leave salary adjustment

Athene88noctua

Hi all,

may you can help me to solve a mistery. I've already checked a lots of websites, forums, etc but I couldn't find answer.
I started my maternity leave 4 weeks ago but before I left I received my last payslip. There was a strange thing on it: the company deducted me by 146 pound and the reason is "parental leave salary adjustment". I couldn't find on the internet what does it mean (I only learned what is parental leave) and anyway I didn' t claimed for anything, I had no absence, extra day off , I didn' even took any day for antenatal appointments so I don't understand why I had to pay this amount? That's a lots of money, especially now with the baby coming.
Does anybody have any idea, information what could be this parental leave adjustment?

Thanks for your help :-)

MoneyMission2015

Did you finish a few days before your normal payrun? I'm just thinking that if say your payrun usually paid you to the end of the month but you finished on 25th for instance, they would have to adjust your wages to deduct the days paid that you weren't in work (up to the end of the month).


This is just a suggestion as I know I've had the query from our employees in work and more often than not it's because they didn't work the full month, their leave date fell in between a payroll run, so the payroll has run the full months wages and then deducted for the days not worked.


However, if this isn't the case you are better off just speaking to your payroll department to ask what the deduction was for.

Athene88noctua

I finished on 27th of April and the payday is the 28th of every month (which was also my dayoff so I worked a full month) . I did it on purpose because of the payday. And this amount too much for one day salary (and also too much for 2 day- I've got 7,70 per hour and I've got only 33 guaranteed hours per week, which means 6,5 hours per day (6,5 x 7,7 x 2 days it's only 100 pound)).
Thanks for the help anyway. I'll try to get in touch with the payroll but I'm nut sure I can- only the team leaders are allowed to raise queries like this one

FBaby

It often doesn't work like that. You might be paid earlier before the end of the month, but that would be on the basis that you work the full month. You are most likely not paid for days work 28th to 27th but for each month on a pro-rata basis (ie. same whether it's 30 or 31 days). So this means that you didn't work for 3/4 days from that perspective, hence the difference.

How you entitled to Maternity pay though? If so, you should get the difference in whatever you are entitled to, which might be added to next month's pay, or for just these days (most unlikely).

You need to contact your HR department though to clarify.

TELLIT01

We can only guess the reasons. The only one's who can give a definitive answer are your HR or payroll departments.