I’m still owed money from my hourly rate rising from January 2018

Skmoskmo

Hi there

I wonder if anyone can help here coz we are at a loss. Here goes......

My husband was employed through an agency for four years there and was thankfully taken on full time by the company the agency was sending workers too. He started full-time with the company on 6th August so therefore received his P45 from the agency and was obviously taken off their books.

It has now came to light that he is owed around £250 from an hourly wage rise dating back to January 2018 through to 6th August 2018 when he was taken on full time. So as he is obviously no longer employed by them they are asking him to sign a temporary contract to be put on their records again for 1-day to be able to legally give him the money he is due and pay tax on it aswell but he is very reluctant to do this for a variety of reasons but also in case it interferes with his full time employment.

Surely there must be an easier way of doing it without him having to sign contracts to employ him for half an hour or less to be able to legitimately put money through their books???

Btw we live in Scotland so will fall under Scottish Law. Any help would be very greatly appreciated guys. Thanks :T

jobbingmusician

Oh dear. I didn't want to just read and run, but this definitely sounds like a 'get legal advice' post, even before I read the complexity that it's under Scottish, rather than English, law. I might be tempted to ask HMRC for advice as to why the employer might be asking your husband to become an employee for a day. I can quite imagine why he - and his current employer - might be reluctant to do this!

Savvy_Sue

Yup, I agree, because I didn't think this was difficult!

When we got a backdated payrise just after someone left, there were special instructions for how to pay their backpayment, it had to be taxed, couldn't issue a new P45.

It may be slightly complicated by covering two tax years, but not hard.