Maternity Pay

[Sycamore3House]

My Daughter-in-law is currently on Maternity leave. She finished work at Christmas and is due back to work in October.

Her Maternity Pay has been paid into her bank account each pay day since. This months pay however was not paid into her bank account. On investigation via a telephone call she was then told she would be paid by cheque and it would be sent to her in the post. She said she would collect it and she was told the cheque would be available after 12 noon. She arrived at 1.15pm and there was no cheque waiting. She waited half an hour for someone to bring the cheque from her bosses office. (In a different location to her work). This means she now has to wait 3 more working days before the monies are cleared. Her friend also works at the same place and she was paid as normal via the BACS system as were the other employees.

The reason we think this has happened is that the DIL and my son rented a flat from the same person which they have now vacated. They had lived there since July 2011. They were not in arrears or owed any bills. They had not paid a deposit and they had an Assured Shorthold Tenancy Agreement which is pretty standard. The landlord is stating that there was £1000 damage to the flat and that the light in the bathroom was broken. The light was broken and it was reported to him 7 months before they moved out and he never got it fixed.

When they knew they were moving they wrote a letter and told him. He always seemed to be I available by phone

Although these are two different subjects/topics/problems that need to be solved surely the maternity pay problem is a breach of something.

Sorry to be so long winded hope someone can reassure.
Cheers

[Dencroft]

There are 1,000 litres in a cubic metre

[buildersmate]

You may be right that your DIL is being messed around because of the other scenario but I'm not sure how linking them in any follow-up discussion regarding the late payment is going to help - it just muddies the water.

The employer is in breach of the contract for not paying an employee on time, the typical claim for which is payment for any knock-on loss incurred because of the breach.

So if she's incurred bank charges because money arrived late, that could be worth pursuing. IMHO it's probably pushing it to claim for loss of time and travel costs - she offered to go in to collect.

Perhaps write to employer to state how inconvenient the occurrence was, and close with 'I trust that this lapse was a one-off.

What else were you expecting?

[factor-fiction]

I am sure Buildersmate is right as usual, although I don't see any link between maternity pay and rent arrears- unless you mean that the landlord is also your DIL's employer

[buildersmate]

I think that's what he does mean, FF. Somewhat petty behaviour and unlikely to foster good employee relations. Perhaps he's hacked off with forking out for employees on maternity leave.