Pay Slip Rights
All employees have the right to know how often and how much they will be paid. This includes being informed of the date or day of payment, the amount the payment will be and how the payment will be made – directly to the bank, by cheque or in cash, for example. All this must occur within the first two months of employment.
Although the vast majority of workers have a right to a pay slip, not everybody who works for a company has the same privaledge. Freelance workers, for example, do not have the right to a pay slip, nor do employees of the Police force and those who work in merchant fishing, where payment is divided up depending on the catch.
Employees that do have the right to a payslip, however, also have the right to a certain amount of detail in the slip. Every pay slip must inform them of their gross wage, net wage and the amount of fixed and variable deductions from this wage. Any part-payments must be also be detailed. Although not necessary, it is common for pay slips to also contain tax codes, pay rates and the employee’s National Insurance number.
The pay slip example comes from ceywater.com
April 17th, 2010 at 12:35 pm
Now this would have been useful to know YEARS ago! When I was young I just got paid whenever somebody remembered to pay me!!
August 2nd, 2010 at 9:41 am
I just read the news “One in 10 workers do not understand payslip”.
September 29th, 2010 at 12:49 pm
Which statutes detail an employees right to a payslip.
My daughter does not receive a payslip from her employer.
Thank you in anticipation of your assistance.
October 20th, 2010 at 2:49 pm
Barry: all employees (apart from the police force) have the statutory right to receive a payslip, either just before they are paid or at the time.
Are you sure your daughter is an employee, i.e. that she is not contracted or freelance? If so, she also has the right to know how much she will be paid and how often.
October 21st, 2010 at 6:11 am
just wondering if I am on my official day off and my work phone me to do overtime and I say no are the allowed to put unavallable on my pay slip