Help!!

[CiaraM85]

i was working part time in a salon and handed my notice in last week told them i would work out my notice but they didn't want that coz it wasn't busy, so today i went in to collect my wages they owed me from last week, i was told that they were taken my wages in lue of the training they sent me on in august and said that they stated this in there interview with me. in actual fact they never said they would be sending me on any training and i don't have a written contract with them. the training will never benefit me either coz there is nobody about would have this product.
so what i'm looking to now is can they do this am i intitle to any money?

 

[huberella]

Have you checked what the labour regulations are in your country? In Canada, unless you have given the employter written conset, they cannot take off any money off your check...even if you verbally agreed to take training and have it docked from your check.

 

[huberella]

This is what I found on the net concerning your country....

My employer has introduced rules regarding taking deductions from my wages. What does the law say here? ​

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All workers have the right not to have unlawful deductions made from their wages. For deductions to be lawful, they must either be required or authorised by legislation, or authorised by the worker’s contract of employment so long as a copy of the relevant term or a written explanation of the term is issued to the worker prior to the deduction being made, or agreed to by the worker in writing prior to the deduction being made. Further protections are afforded to workers in retail employment where deductions are due to cash shortages or stock deficiencies connected with retail transactions.​

A worker who believes an unlawful deduction has been made may claim to the industrial tribunal assuming the internal grievance procedure has failed, and, if the claim is upheld, the tribunal can order the employer to repay the amount unlawfully deducted. If you complain in good faith about a deduction, whether or not the deduction was properly made, and you are dismissed, the dismissal is automatically unfair.
The Agency’s officers should be able to assist you in other wage-related issues such as: national minimum wage, arrangements regarding stakeholder pensions and so on. Further information on deductions from wages is available from the Agency’s Information Note 7 – which can be downloaded from here
Information Note -Deductions from wages by employers

If our answer or publications do not provide you with enough information please contact the Agency's Head Office: 028 9032 1442 - or our Regional Office: 028 7126 9639.


It appears to me, that your employer is in the wrong and have no right to take that money from you.

I dealt with almost this exact same thing a few years back and took my complaint to the Labour standards office and was given all my money back.

 

[CiaraM85]

Thanks very much its just my mother and father ain't to pleased and want me to go back into see them but i just wanted to know if i was in the right or not thanks again for your help.

 

[yogi10]

if there is no contract your employer has probably lost befrore theystarted.
Unless you have signed the contract to agree to the recovery of training costs the money has been unlawfully deducted.Pop to citizens advice and i am sure you will get your money

 

[number1kitty]

Call ACAS they help people in your situation and also mediate for you too. I have the same clause in my contract, but would only enforce it if they left me, not if I let them go!

Kate

 

[tog]

How old are you? I bet if this is your first job after college and you are late teens/early twenties your employer is trying it on as they think you are young and naieve. . if this is the case arrange to go into the salon and see the manager and take your dad along with you, I bet your boss will see things slightly differently then and pay you the money owed.