New job, is this right?

Mumoftwobeauties89

Hi all,

So I started a new job on the 13th, received my contract, had induction etc all okay and job going great. Apart from in my contract it stated that I would be paid on the last day of each month. I have checked today and couldn’t see my wage pending for tomorrow but I could see that my previous workplace had sent my payment for money they owed me (last wage). I contacted HR from my current work place enquiring about my pay as to be honest they have been abit vague on the matter. To be told that infact I won’t get paid from them until the end of next month. The pay I am receiving from my previous workplace is only for the 1st - 12th jan so not an incredible amount and will only just cover my bills. I have to pay to get to work as I do not drive so rely on buses and have two young children to feed / clothe. HR stated that my pay being late is because I missed the cut off for payroll but I started on the 13th? Quite upset really as December was a hard month with Christmas then January seems to have stretched forever to then find out I’m not due any pay tomorrow, was reallylooking forward to life getting easier

lincroft1710

Quite normal if you start mid-month not to to be paid until the end f the following month. You could tentatively see if they would give you an advance of your January salary, but don't push this.

KatrinaWaves

You could ask them for an advance. It is not uncommon for someone starting mid month to miss cut off dates. Ours, for example, is the 6th, so anyone starting from the 7th onward would end up being paid for 2(ish) months at the end of the second month.

pjcox2005

As above, this is quite common.


You may not need me saying it, and I expect you've had other priorities that have prevented it, but it's these situations where you need some emergency savings. You may already have been on it given you're on this forum but the debt-free wanabee forum is very useful for support and advice on budgeting even where you don't have debt.


If company can't advance, then perhaps a 0% credit card application now would allow for some of your standard purchases like weekly shop to go on card so that it can be paid in full on next pay day. May be a solution to the temporary issue.

Mumoftwobeauties89

Thanks everyone,

I should have saved however I did not expect this to happen and I was previously on an apprentice wage so didn’t have much room in my salary for saving.

My wage will not be my usual plus 3 weeks either next month due to it being a term time job my salary is pro rata so it will just be slightly higher until September when the academic year resets so I can’t lend any as it will leave me short next month.

I can’t get credit cards either due to previous bad credit. I suppose my partner could help but I’ve more chance of seeing pigs fly!

Just going to be a very difficult month again I suppose, yay.

[Deleted User]

Least February is a little shorter month.

If you are a member/near a co-op (the blue one) gives £1 vouchers and in the weekly junk mail I see there is a money off coupon for the green one.
Otherwise take coppers in for exchange in other bigger supermarkets if there is a coin machine. You get a receipt which again can come of food shop.

If you have a monthly bus pass, sometimes a driver will turn a blind eye for a few days if it has expired.

Could you ask your new employer for holiday days, if unable to get an advance.

KatrinaWaves

Emmar1989 wrote: »

My wage will not be my usual plus 3 weeks either next month due to it being a term time job my salary is pro rata so it will just be slightly higher until September when the academic year resets so I can’t lend any as it will leave me short next month.
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Can you explain this?

Your partner... you have two young children? Are they his? Regardless he should be contributing to help you. If they are his children, then to say you have more chance of pigs flying than him helping you, get rid.

Mumoftwobeauties89

Sorry I’m not clued up on here yet and can’t figure out how to do the quotes thing but KatrinaWaves - no he won’t help. I’ve been in a similar situation before where I started a new job on the last day of the month so had a whole month to wait for any pay and had previously been on benefits which once I started work we no longer qualified for.

He didn’t help then apart from paying house related bills and food, my personal bills and anything to do with the kids was left to me hence the bad credit as I ended up massively into an unarranged overdraft.

Youngest is his, eldest isn’t but she calls him dad / he calls her his due to biological father not being around for years and the amount of time my partner has been in her life.

Completely agree I’ve felt like that many times but in every other way apart from money he is the perfect partner and dad. It’s just how he’s been brought up I guess.

Mumoftwobeauties89

Deleted User - not a member of coop unfortunately and we don’t have one close by but thank you for the reply regardless.

I work term time only so fortunately I do actually get a week off in a fortnight, but then I have two hungry and bored children to contend with. my mum has offered to lend me some money and I’ll have till august to pay it off so not so bad now, just need to figure out how much I’ll need.

Still can’t shake his depressed feeling now though, I was so looking forward to things being better after being stuck in an apprenticeship for a year.

Sea_Shell

"Completely agree I’ve felt like that many times but in every other way apart from money he is the perfect partner and dad. It’s just how he’s been brought up I guess."

So are you saying that if you lost your job, or couldn't work for health reasons, he'd just financially wash his hands of you?

Is he really not willing to "sub" you for a few weeks?!

KatrinaWaves

I respectfully disagree that anyone is 'in all other ways' the perfect partner when he is doing what amounts to financial abuse, refusing to pay for child related expenses when one is biologically his and the other calls him dad...
Allowing you to build up debts because he will not help you?

I don't feel I can provide much constructive help here.