Joiner/leaver adjustment on final pay slip?

Shadweller

Please can anyone advise if they have any knowledge of joiner leaver adjustment being applied on a final pay slip?

I have never heard of such a thing previously, and it amounts to about a month's salary being deducted from my final pay.

I have done a quick google which hasn't been much help, most of the results seem to have been set up for payroll departments, advising them how to calculate this deduction, or how not to apply it.

From that I would deduce that this is a discretionary deduction.

Can anyone advise if this deduction is fair, legal, and above board, or not? And if can be appealed?

Naturally I am pretty put out, as there was never any mention of this deduction in any previous communications.

theoretica

As I am familiar with this it is just to ensure that if you have worked for the employer for a total of x weeks you are paid for x weeks - no more and no less. Because people often don't join on the 1st of the month and leave on the last day (if paid monthly). To check on it you may need to look back to what happened when you joined too - were you paid for a part month, and when are you paid related to the days worked? Some employers pay partly in advance some just in arrears.

Shadweller

Thanks for the reply @theoretica.

I started work on the 6th of a month, around 4 years ago. I get paid on the 25th of every month.

I have checked my first pay amount and it was around 20% (rough estimate - my memory of maths isn't so great as to work out the exact %) short of my full monthly amount.

So from that it would seem to me that my first pay actually took into account the fact that I started part way through a month? I worked roughly 75% of my first month? And it looks like I was paid roughly proportionate to that in my first pay slip.

I'm hoping that they've got this wrong, and that I'll be able to query and appeal it. It seems to me that they have.