> Asda knows it is a massive issue, but sadly isn’t doing enough to put this right – they refuse to invest the money needed in the payroll operation to sort this out.
I don’t see why a company failing to pay you what you’re owed on the day they owe you isn’t a bigger deal. Maybe we need fines that are a portion of revenue to make companies take responsibility.
Edit: spelling
Fucking up payroll should lead to fines and interest paid to those that have their pay fucked with.
Corporate greed
Error? Bug? Sounds like a feature to me.
These employees should definitely be shoplifting those skipped meals. It’s not like Asda/~~Walmart~~ (ok til Walmart don’t own them anymore) can’t afford it.
I wouldn’t be hungry if I worked in a supermarket 😆
About fifteen or so years ago I remember working in a sheet metal factory for a company that got bought out, the new company changed the payroll date to theirs which was three days later than the previous one.
But they didn’t inform the employees, they had also sacked off all the other office staff and brought in their own staff before this came into effect.
The new staff were more than a little terrified when the entire factory work force went upstairs and refused to leave the office until they were paid and refused to work. I did wonder if I was about to witness a lynching that day.
Someone needs to be in prison over this
This has been happening for over a year at marks and spencer . I dont understand how they can get it wrong when for alot of people their shifts and identical every month
I don’t get it. If I get the wrong pay, I am in HR immediately, and they will organise an expedited payment to put this right. There is no reason for an error to drag on to the next month. (Of course it does not help that a lot of staff get paid on the last work day of the month, causing some really unnecessary time pressure.)
I guess the problem here is not that ASDA is making mistakes, it is that they refuse to put it right. And for me, that would just be an invitation for a law suit for consequential damages. Loss of benefits, overdraft charges, interest charges, all of that can be claimed back quite easily.
As someone who works there this has happened more often since the takeover was made official in March,.
They need get their shit together because this is fucking with people’s livelihoods and when they do fuck up, workers shouldn’t have to wait until the next payday to get the money they are rightfully owed.
Fucking cunts
I dont work for Asda, but on a basic wage and now only eat once a day.
I mean i work in retail. The pay is shit. We get treated like shit, by managers, staff and customers. We are the backbone of the country like the nhs (they’re the immune system). Without us people don’t get food. So why treat us so poorly?
You think these “errors” ever happen to the manager or CEO? lol
Surely late payment (as with a bank) means you are entitled to some interest or charge. Say 25 pounds and then a percentage until it’s rectified.
Also, and maybe this is why I would be unsuitable for such a job, but I’m not skipping meals whilst the person responsible sits on a literal shop full of food. I will be getting mine
I used to work in payroll and I wouldn’t send shit until EVERY staff I was responsible for had flawless pay entered. If there was a discrepancy on a time sheet delaying things I’d be calling mfers next of kin to meet deadline.
Ah takin notes from us Americans are ya?
That’s the Asda price.
I used to work in tesco about 10 years ago and every month I had to argue my wages with them and sometimes they would pay me out of petty cash which I really don’t think they should have been doing
When I worked there, one of my colleagues wasn’t paid *at all*. She wasn’t new or anything, it was strange. The store’s HR person left it to my colleague to contact payroll (what is the People Manager even for then?) and payroll suggested she forgot to clock in… every day for a month.
Steal the meals from ASDA. They won’t notice and will still record massive profits. Win win
I think I’ll just make the “error” of not shopping there anymore.
It’s a joke, every payday they’re shorting me £400 and saying it’s emergency tax.. you’ll get it on your next pay? And they wonder why most workers don’t turn up for work
Worked for ASDA for 13 months. 11/13 months my pay was incorrect. When I first started it took them over two months to pay me at all because I was not put on the system and given a clock-in card until close to 2 months in, left to rely on my manager manually adding my hours. Had no money on the run-up to Christmas. Was told that there was “nothing they can do, and id have to wait until next pay-day”.
Cracking company.
That’s SDWorx my previous employer – absolutely useless company, it’s previous version existed mainly on hype with no sensible investment in systems , then the new Belgian owner spent a few years firing all the managers. I’ve been left two years, but obviously thinks are not improving – embarrassed by past association with that lot.
They work where the food is. The problem solves itself. If wages aren’t paid in currency, goods will do.
Failing to get paid is them being in breach of employment contract so you can sue for damages.
Not just Asda. I know people in the big 4 supermarkets getting consistently messed about with pay
Oops probably because of all the petrol I borrow from pay at pump, sorry about that
You would think that ASDA employees could come up with *some way* to obtain food without resorting to payroll errors.
If only the huge food shop had a way to offer free groceries to the employees who can’t afford to buy their groceries until they get the money they are owed..
When I used to work for Debenhams, they had a bizarre rule that if they paid you incorrectly, you could have a maximum of 60% of what they owed you, in cash, from the till, but no more. You had to wait until the next payday for the rest.
It seems like some bigger companies care only about the trouble brought on by employees *complaining* over incorrect pay.
There should be a government-mandated mechanism to force companies to pay a percentage of the late pay as compensation, for every day the pay is late – e.g. 1% a day. Obviously, this won’t happen with this lot in charge.
Supermarket payroll systems are fucked, and they have consistently screwed me over the past few years.
This is the largest huff I’ve seen about one in the media and even then it’s small news. Every time I’ve been shorted by hundreds in the past, I’ve been living with my parents. I’ve moved out and dread the inevitable “next time” this happens given I have payments that *need* to go out on time now.
And as usual, like in this instance, corporate will issue a petty “soz lol” and act like nothing happened the week after. They should have to compensate workers for it, workers **need** that money on time.
I like how a paycheck error can’t possibly be fixed in anyway. Can’t write new checks, can’t give them cash. “Sorry that’s just possible way you can be paid.”
Aren’t asda owned by WALMART? They also do this in the states usually it’s so they can make more money on the interest before the payments go out. Seeing as Walmart is privately owned and is owned by one of the richest families in the world. This stuff isn’t a mistake. In the states they also purposely pay low wages and keep hours low so they don’t have to provide any benefits like health and in the states Walmart workers are the biggest recipients of food stamps in the country.
I was doing contract work, which required the use of an umbrella company.
Total pay in April: £160 (Yes, you read that right, £160. This is for 160 hours. My rate was £30/HR. Seems they deducted £4000 accidentally.
In May, I switched to a US-based umbrella company for tax purposes. Not a single problem.
I’m still chasing the UK umbrella company for the missing £4000.
Edit (added this)
My day job is as a Lecturer at a University. As you might know, huge strike action will be occurring. Many universities have been hit with “working strictly to timetable” that is, we work only the hours we agreed to on our annual timetable. Some universities have deducted all pay of faculty doing this and deemed any other work completed (like teaching) as voluntary. How, in a modern society are they allowed to get away with that?
What employees? Aaaa the retired old slowly people working on asda ….! No worries they soon will go Digital and you’ll pay by your face screening…… Soon will become the slave’s from slavelandia
Fuck that. Rinse the stock room! It’s a fucking supermarket! In the extremely unlikely event that a workmates grasses you up for stealing simply tell them that if you’re fired and/or arrested you’ll go to the press. Headline: Starving Asda employee who was short on money after Asda made a payroll mistake sacked and arrested after stealing food from work.
That would definitely end up in the papers.
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> Asda knows it is a massive issue, but sadly isn’t doing enough to put this right – they refuse to invest the money needed in the payroll operation to sort this out.
[Asda reports 42% jump in 2021 operating profit](https://toyworldmag.co.uk/asda-reports-42-jump-in-2021-operating-profit/)
I don’t see why a company failing to pay you what you’re owed on the day they owe you isn’t a bigger deal. Maybe we need fines that are a portion of revenue to make companies take responsibility.
Edit: spelling
Fucking up payroll should lead to fines and interest paid to those that have their pay fucked with.
Corporate greed
Error? Bug? Sounds like a feature to me.
These employees should definitely be shoplifting those skipped meals. It’s not like Asda/~~Walmart~~ (ok til Walmart don’t own them anymore) can’t afford it.
I wouldn’t be hungry if I worked in a supermarket 😆
About fifteen or so years ago I remember working in a sheet metal factory for a company that got bought out, the new company changed the payroll date to theirs which was three days later than the previous one.
But they didn’t inform the employees, they had also sacked off all the other office staff and brought in their own staff before this came into effect.
The new staff were more than a little terrified when the entire factory work force went upstairs and refused to leave the office until they were paid and refused to work. I did wonder if I was about to witness a lynching that day.
Someone needs to be in prison over this
This has been happening for over a year at marks and spencer . I dont understand how they can get it wrong when for alot of people their shifts and identical every month
I don’t get it. If I get the wrong pay, I am in HR immediately, and they will organise an expedited payment to put this right. There is no reason for an error to drag on to the next month. (Of course it does not help that a lot of staff get paid on the last work day of the month, causing some really unnecessary time pressure.)
I guess the problem here is not that ASDA is making mistakes, it is that they refuse to put it right. And for me, that would just be an invitation for a law suit for consequential damages. Loss of benefits, overdraft charges, interest charges, all of that can be claimed back quite easily.
As someone who works there this has happened more often since the takeover was made official in March,.
They need get their shit together because this is fucking with people’s livelihoods and when they do fuck up, workers shouldn’t have to wait until the next payday to get the money they are rightfully owed.
Fucking cunts
I dont work for Asda, but on a basic wage and now only eat once a day.
I mean i work in retail. The pay is shit. We get treated like shit, by managers, staff and customers. We are the backbone of the country like the nhs (they’re the immune system). Without us people don’t get food. So why treat us so poorly?
You think these “errors” ever happen to the manager or CEO? lol
Surely late payment (as with a bank) means you are entitled to some interest or charge. Say 25 pounds and then a percentage until it’s rectified.
Also, and maybe this is why I would be unsuitable for such a job, but I’m not skipping meals whilst the person responsible sits on a literal shop full of food. I will be getting mine
I used to work in payroll and I wouldn’t send shit until EVERY staff I was responsible for had flawless pay entered. If there was a discrepancy on a time sheet delaying things I’d be calling mfers next of kin to meet deadline.
Ah takin notes from us Americans are ya?
That’s the Asda price.
I used to work in tesco about 10 years ago and every month I had to argue my wages with them and sometimes they would pay me out of petty cash which I really don’t think they should have been doing
When I worked there, one of my colleagues wasn’t paid *at all*. She wasn’t new or anything, it was strange. The store’s HR person left it to my colleague to contact payroll (what is the People Manager even for then?) and payroll suggested she forgot to clock in… every day for a month.
Steal the meals from ASDA. They won’t notice and will still record massive profits. Win win
I think I’ll just make the “error” of not shopping there anymore.
It’s a joke, every payday they’re shorting me £400 and saying it’s emergency tax.. you’ll get it on your next pay? And they wonder why most workers don’t turn up for work
Worked for ASDA for 13 months. 11/13 months my pay was incorrect. When I first started it took them over two months to pay me at all because I was not put on the system and given a clock-in card until close to 2 months in, left to rely on my manager manually adding my hours. Had no money on the run-up to Christmas. Was told that there was “nothing they can do, and id have to wait until next pay-day”.
Cracking company.
That’s SDWorx my previous employer – absolutely useless company, it’s previous version existed mainly on hype with no sensible investment in systems , then the new Belgian owner spent a few years firing all the managers. I’ve been left two years, but obviously thinks are not improving – embarrassed by past association with that lot.
They work where the food is. The problem solves itself. If wages aren’t paid in currency, goods will do.
Failing to get paid is them being in breach of employment contract so you can sue for damages.
Not just Asda. I know people in the big 4 supermarkets getting consistently messed about with pay
Oops probably because of all the petrol I borrow from pay at pump, sorry about that
You would think that ASDA employees could come up with *some way* to obtain food without resorting to payroll errors.
If only the huge food shop had a way to offer free groceries to the employees who can’t afford to buy their groceries until they get the money they are owed..
When I used to work for Debenhams, they had a bizarre rule that if they paid you incorrectly, you could have a maximum of 60% of what they owed you, in cash, from the till, but no more. You had to wait until the next payday for the rest.
It seems like some bigger companies care only about the trouble brought on by employees *complaining* over incorrect pay.
There should be a government-mandated mechanism to force companies to pay a percentage of the late pay as compensation, for every day the pay is late – e.g. 1% a day. Obviously, this won’t happen with this lot in charge.
Supermarket payroll systems are fucked, and they have consistently screwed me over the past few years.
This is the largest huff I’ve seen about one in the media and even then it’s small news. Every time I’ve been shorted by hundreds in the past, I’ve been living with my parents. I’ve moved out and dread the inevitable “next time” this happens given I have payments that *need* to go out on time now.
And as usual, like in this instance, corporate will issue a petty “soz lol” and act like nothing happened the week after. They should have to compensate workers for it, workers **need** that money on time.
I like how a paycheck error can’t possibly be fixed in anyway. Can’t write new checks, can’t give them cash. “Sorry that’s just possible way you can be paid.”
Aren’t asda owned by WALMART? They also do this in the states usually it’s so they can make more money on the interest before the payments go out. Seeing as Walmart is privately owned and is owned by one of the richest families in the world. This stuff isn’t a mistake. In the states they also purposely pay low wages and keep hours low so they don’t have to provide any benefits like health and in the states Walmart workers are the biggest recipients of food stamps in the country.
I was doing contract work, which required the use of an umbrella company.
Total pay in April: £160 (Yes, you read that right, £160. This is for 160 hours. My rate was £30/HR. Seems they deducted £4000 accidentally.
In May, I switched to a US-based umbrella company for tax purposes. Not a single problem.
I’m still chasing the UK umbrella company for the missing £4000.
Edit (added this)
My day job is as a Lecturer at a University. As you might know, huge strike action will be occurring. Many universities have been hit with “working strictly to timetable” that is, we work only the hours we agreed to on our annual timetable. Some universities have deducted all pay of faculty doing this and deemed any other work completed (like teaching) as voluntary. How, in a modern society are they allowed to get away with that?
What employees? Aaaa the retired old slowly people working on asda ….! No worries they soon will go Digital and you’ll pay by your face screening…… Soon will become the slave’s from slavelandia
Fuck that. Rinse the stock room! It’s a fucking supermarket! In the extremely unlikely event that a workmates grasses you up for stealing simply tell them that if you’re fired and/or arrested you’ll go to the press. Headline: Starving Asda employee who was short on money after Asda made a payroll mistake sacked and arrested after stealing food from work.
That would definitely end up in the papers.