Not paid contracted hours

Riverdale865

Hi

I’m
Sorry if this is in the wrong section I desperately need advice

My husband is the only one working due to me having ill health we rely on his wages but his employer is being dififcult the problems we are having are

1) won’t pay contracted hours. They have currently run out of work so we have no money coming in

2) they have used his holiday pay to pay him wages... with out us knowing. Only just found this out.


He has a signed contract stating hours he works etc. Now we are panicking as no money coming in. They are difficult people and not easy to approach due to us living in tied cold accommodation

Where do we stand? Can we claim anything to help? I don’t know how we will survive.....

Riverdale865

We are in a tied accommodation that comes with job. We need money to be able to move

Savvy_Sue

What does his contract say about a situation where there is no work?

agrinnall

On point 2, there's nothing inherently illegal about an employer insisting when holiday is taken. However, there are rules about how much notice has to be given to the employee, and if your husbank really didn't know that was happening then those rules appear to have been broken. I'm not sure what the remedy for that breach would be, although it could be a factor should this end up at an employment tribunal.

Undervalued

agrinnall wrote: »

On point 2, there's nothing inherently illegal about an employer insisting when holiday is taken. However, there are rules about how much notice has to be given to the employee, and if your husbank really didn't know that was happening then those rules appear to have been broken. I'm not sure what the remedy for that breach would be, although it could be a factor should this end up at an employment tribunal.

There are but they are fairly minimal. Plus if an employer really wants to be difficult, whist staying withing the law, they can instruct the employee to take, for example, every other day as holiday until their allowance is used up.