Electronic payslips

[Deleted User]

Did you read my post? Gov website states it’s up to the employer whether it’s paper based or electronic.

Not been funny but how hard is it for you to create a quick email account, your mother to give this to work and then you can get the payslip for her each pay period?

Plus as you say she’s near retirement so not like you will have to do this for long.

End of the day the employer has fulfilled their legal obligation.

comeandgo

Would the office staff where your mother works print it off for her? Could you spend an hour or so with her and teach her how to do it by doing it over and over again? Doing it once a month, if you just print off the relevant pay slip she will have forgotten what you showed her.

Ozzuk

Get them to email it to you, print it and post it to her, or read out amounts over phone, or text her. Simples!

We've moved electronic, we do offer a print service for pensioners but it is for annual statement only, and we didn't need to do this.

elsien

Or suggest she accesses a silver surfer course somewhere.
Parent is 80 and not great with technology but is perfectly capable of sending an email and logging into a website.
She's setting up problems for herself in the future as things go more and more online if she's not willing to do the basics.

[Deleted User]

lincroft1710 wrote: »

Surely accessing one's e-mail is a fairly basic computer skill? How old is your mother?

The payslip would be available for her to access on the appropriate day. It is just that she is choosing not to learn how to access it

I genuinely knew a 48 yr old lady who didn’t like computers and modern mobile phone/was computer illiterate.

We always had to do the things for them.

Whilst they were in employment, their team leader/HR would help them access stuff like this but not sure it could be done indefinite.

Neil_Jones

newwave19 wrote: »

thanks for your replies, and I know that it seems like i'm asking it again, but I have read on a post, that "the responsibility is on the employer to make the payslip available to the employee. If the employee does not know where to find the payslip or has no computer access to it, then it has not been “given” to the employee". Surely if she has no email address to give the employer, they have no way to give her the payslip via email, so they would have to revert to paper?

With all due respect I think you're just looking for an excuse now not to get the payslip electronically.

Email addresses you can set up for free in two minutes, go to Gmail or Yahoo or Outlook/Hotmail to create one and use that. If you don't use it for anything else, then so be it. No computer access is fixable, go to the library and use those.

DCFC79

Could you not set the relevant page as a home page on the browser and leave instructions or as suggested look into a silver surfer course.

stator

Time to start learning how to use a computer.
If she ever has to claim benefits she will need to learn, so might as well start now.


Old people refusing to use a computer is no longer an option and the government doesn't want to waste money pandering to the few refuseniks still out there

Doshwaster

My mum is 84 and has never touched a computer in her life but I set her up a Gmail account for times when an email address is asked for. It just redirects to my account and I can deal with it or pass on the information to her.

Savvy_Sue

What it boils down to is that your mother has two choices:

1. Allow you or a.n.other to have access to her payslips with the resulting loss of privacy or

2. Learn how to do it herself. Plenty of ways of making it easy.