Previous employer pay/remaining holiday issues

Smudge26

Hi having some trouble here.

I left my previous employer at the beginning of this month. My salary was £740 a month (contracted 20 hours a week, wage was £8.61 an hour)

I worked the 1st, 2nd and 3rd. I was told verbally I was contracted Monday-wednesdays which is what these days are. My hours totalled at 23.5 hours that week (3.5 hours overtime)

Tomorrow is payday and I am being paid a grand total of £72.47. I asked how this is possible as the wage is £8.61 an hour, which means this would be £202.33. This was the response -

“ ******** payroll take your gross monthly salary £748.92, divide it by 31 days (October), which gives them a daily rate of £24.15, they then times this by the 3 days you worked totalling £72.47 (Gross).”

So they are saying I am being paid a daily rate. Even for days off and this is averaged out between working days and days off. A full time member of staff (same role, same hourly rate) gets £1370 a month. So basically what they are saying is if a full timer left after these 3 working days, they would be paid £44. How does this make any sense whatsoever?

I have asked to get paid my remaining holiday and the manager just rang me and said there isn’t any left (even though I know there is) he said “when you went to America, you used 64 hours” this was 2 weeks holiday exactly, so i told him no I was contracted 20 hours a week so that’s 40 hours. He said it’s not worked like that, its 7.4 hours a day. So they’re working it out based on 5 days a week as a full timer basically, even though they’re 10 hours out from that calculation unless he meant to say 74.

To sum it up there now saying they pay a “daily rate” of £24.15, if the month has 31 days and a higher rate if it has less. Also that even though I’m contracted 20 hours a week (and I worked around 3 hours a week overtime) when I take holiday I have to take between 30 and 40 hours holiday!?

Anyone else heard anything like this before?

Comms69

Smudge26 wrote: »

Hi having some trouble here.

I left my previous employer at the beginning of this month. My salary was £740 a month (contracted 20 hours a week, wage was £8.61 an hour)

I worked the 1st, 2nd and 3rd. I was told verbally I was contracted Monday-wednesdays which is what these days are. My hours totalled at 23.5 hours that week (3.5 hours overtime)

Tomorrow is payday and I am being paid a grand total of £72.47. I asked how this is possible as the wage is £8.61 an hour, which means this would be £202.33. This was the response -

“ ******** payroll take your gross monthly salary £748.92, divide it by 31 days (October), which gives them a daily rate of £24.15, they then times this by the 3 days you worked totalling £72.47 (Gross).”

So they are saying I am being paid a daily rate. Even for days off and this is averaged out between working days and days off. A full time member of staff (same role, same hourly rate) gets £1370 a month. So basically what they are saying is if a full timer left after these 3 working days, they would be paid £44. How does this make any sense whatsoever?

I have asked to get paid my remaining holiday and the manager just rang me and said there isn’t any left (even though I know there is) he said “when you went to America, you used 64 hours” this was 2 weeks holiday exactly, so i told him no I was contracted 20 hours a week so that’s 40 hours. He said it’s not worked like that, its 7.4 hours a day. So they’re working it out based on 5 days a week as a full timer basically, even though they’re 10 hours out from that calculation unless he meant to say 74.

To sum it up there now saying they pay a “daily rate” of £24.15, if the month has 31 days and a higher rate if it has less. Also that even though I’m contracted 20 hours a week (and I worked around 3 hours a week overtime) when I take holiday I have to take between 30 and 40 hours holiday!?

Anyone else heard anything like this before?

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