Owed mega wages

Finchs5156

Hello!

I need some advice. I have recently left a company (of my own volition) as I was being bullied by the directors and they stopped sending me work.

The issue I have is that reading through my contract, to make sure I saw it right... I was meant to be paid for the office work I did. Now this was from the 1st September 2015 to Last Wednesday (21st June). I have worked out that I am owed roughly £48,000. The main issue is that I don't have the money to pay the fee for the Money Claim Online Service and I don't know what else to do. I did get paid for events and training I did (which were outside my contract)... but never for any office work

Do I have a case? What Should I do? How should I go about it?

IAmWales

Self employed or employed?

What does your contract say and how are you calculating the £48K? What have you been paid over that period?

sangie595

£48,000 for office work? On top of whatever else you were paid? That seems like an awful lot of pay, never mind a lot of work to not notice you haven't been paid for. How did that happen?

Manxman_in_exile

You sound as if you've only just realised that you've not been paid £48k you should have been.


Did you not notice?

Finchs5156

Manxman_in_exile wrote: »

You sound as if you've only just realised that you've not been paid £48k you should have been.


Did you not notice?

I didn't really as I wasn't doing it for the money (cliche i know) but my family told be to check my contract when all the bullying started and it was only then I realised that they were taking the !!!!

Finchs5156

IAmWales wrote: »

Self employed or employed?

What does your contract say and how are you calculating the £48K? What have you been paid over that period?

Employed

Contract says: 40.5 Hours a week at £12.50 an hour

P60 from last year says around 3,000 and the year before was around 500

IAmWales

How many hours did you actually work? Did you not question why your wage was so low?

£12.50 an hour is roughly £26K per year, so ten months would be £22K. Where have you got £48K from?

This makes no sense.

Finchs5156

sangie595 wrote: »

£48,000 for office work? On top of whatever else you were paid? That seems like an awful lot of pay, never mind a lot of work to not notice you haven't been paid for. How did that happen?

It was a lot of pay - but I was basically managing the company and doing about four people's jobs.

I didn't really see an issue with not being paid at first because they said they were sorting money, then I'd forget or I'd get too busy to really think about it.

I only really saw my contract the other month as that side of the company was never that organised.

Finchs5156

IAmWales wrote: »

How many hours did you actually work? Did you not question why your wage was so low?

£12.50 an hour is roughly £26K per year, so ten months would be £22K. Where have you got £48K from?

This makes no sense.

I worked the full hours - I did but they said 'money issues'

1st september 2015 to last wednesday...

Manxman_in_exile

40.5 hours per week @ £12.50 per hour for, say, 44ish weeks is only about £22k isn't it?


(EDIT: Cross post with IamWales)


2nd edit: My calculation was wrong. OP has changed dates

IAmWales

Finchs5156 wrote: »

I worked the full hours - I did but they said 'money issues'

1st september 2015 to last wednesday...

It would be helpful if you put the correct date in the first post.

There has to be more to this story than you're telling us. No one would willingly work 40 hours a week for £250 a month, or over six months for £500 in total!