Wrong salary on contract

northwest1965

An employment contract was signed, but a month after signing, when the salary was paid, the company have said they put the wrong salary on the contract.

Are they in breach of contract? What advice can someone offer? The amount is approx £2.5k a year

Carrot007

northwest1965 wrote: »

An employment contract was signed, but a month after signing, when the salary was paid, the company have said they put the wrong salary on the contract.

Are they in breach of contract? What advice can someone offer? The amount is approx £2.5k a year

So you are being paid less?


Yes it is breach of contract (as long as the lower amount was not elsewhere (job averts etc) that you shoul have noticed in which case it is an obvious error).


If you agree the contract is invalid you are free to leave with no notice.


No you will not be able to force them to pay you more than they want.

Gavin83

I'm assuming you verbally agreed a salary? Was this figure the same amount on the contract or the same amount you're actually being paid?

parking_question_chap

I would imagine they are. What salary was agreed at interview or stated on the advert?

If you are really good at a job thats hard to recruit for then I would seek the balance or try and negotiate something in between.
If its a job any herbert can do and was advertised at the lesser amount then I would accept the error and not fight it.

DigitalSheppard

Definitely worth talking with your employer about this. Mostly because the contract should be re-negotiated if it is incorrect.

In regards to the breach of contract, if the amount on paper is more than you are receiving, then technically yes. However, don't be too rash and instead talk with your employer and renegotiate.

ACG

Normally when I go for a job, the wage gets agreed verbally and then put on the contract.

Did something similar happen with you?
If so, did the contract match what was agreed and now they are paying less? Or did they genuinely make a mistake and put a higher figure on the paperwork?

If the former, I would be a little annoyed and try to see if anything could be done, especially if you left another job for that one.

If the latter, I would be very careful about taking it further. If someone tried to force me in to honouring what was clearly a mistake as it had been agreed beforehand, I would be questioning do I want someone working for me who was quite happy to sit there and take more than was agreed without saying anything.

KylieJones

Normally, you should verify it when you got the job

74jax

Was the salary on the advert?  What salary was mentioned at interview and what salary was mentioned when you were offered the job?  Were these salary's the same all the way through the process?
After being offered the job and before you handed your notice in (if you had one to hand in), what had you been sent to confirm the appointment?  What was on that communication?  
I'm working on the assumption, advert didn't have a salary, a brief discussion over a salary from xxx and to xxx was mentioned at interview.  You were offered the job and received the contract with a salary on that you were happy with and signed.  Handed notice in.  You have now been paid less than what is on the contract and would only have left your previous job for the salary you signed for.  
I would definitely take this up with them, if the salary you HAVE been paid wasn't mentioned anywhere then of course you should expect the salary you signed for, why would you think it was an error, I really think you have a right to expect what you signed for - if my assumption is right of course.

Barny1979

As this is from July 2019, I presume this issue has been resolved.

74jax

Barny1979 said:

As this is from July 2019, I presume this issue has been resolved.

arghhhhhhh well spotted!

TELLIT01

Barny1979 said:

As this is from July 2019, I presume this issue has been resolved.

Too many people with too much time on their hands trawling up old posts!