Not been paid correctly

Leekeary

Hello all, first time posting so sorry if I do it wrong.

I have been working for my current joy for 2 years and have not taken much notice of my pay, my contracted hours were 28.5 on a rate of 7.65per hour. I have now seen they are paying me for 30 hours, and have been this entire time, the reason I noticed is because my hours have now changed to 34.5 but my pay didn't when I checked I noticed I wasn't paid any more. If I flag this are they going to take back the pay for the last year and a half or will they just back pay me what they owe me over the last six months?

Thanks for any advise or help in advance

marliepanda

They could take back the back pay. It's up to you what to do.

if you flag it up any half decent payroll person will see the difference of 6+ hours in a month but they might not. If you don't flag it up you'll miss out on 18hours + a month, (working based on 4 weeks) so you'll end up worse overal.

But if you didn't work it and got paid, yes they can take it back.

Darksparkle

Not telling them could potentially be considered misconduct. It is in my work anyway.

parkrunner

They overpaid you £1194 over the two years. They have underpaid you £895 over the past six months so roughly £900 overpaid for the whole period. You are being underpaid roughly £34 a week at the moment so in 26 weeks the numbers will merge. Either wait until then or tell them now and they may write it off.