{"id":387864,"date":"2025-08-31T21:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T21:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/387864\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T21:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T21:30:12","slug":"late-wages-workers-resignation-treated-as-dismissal-following-months-of-payment-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/387864\/","title":{"rendered":"Late wages: Worker&#8217;s resignation treated as dismissal following months of payment delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">On 29 September 2024, the worker received a text message from management assuring him that his pay would be up to date by the end of the week and promising to focus on outstanding superannuation issues.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Despite these assurances, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcamag.com\/au\/specialisation\/employment-law\/new-criminal-offence-for-intentional-underpayment-of-wages\/520756\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the promised payments<\/a> failed to materialise, intensifying the worker&#8217;s concerns about the company&#8217;s financial viability.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Payment demands yield inadequate responses<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">On 9 October 2024, the worker sent an email requesting an update regarding his wages, which were 13 days overdue.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He subsequently received one payment, but two weeks of salary remained outstanding, demonstrating the inadequate nature of the employer&#8217;s response.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The worker escalated his approach on 13 October 2024 by sending a formal demand letter requesting payment of outstanding wages within seven days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On 29 September 2024, the worker received a text message from management assuring him that his pay would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3092],"tags":[51,134460,134458,897,134459,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-387864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-delayed-wages-work-fwc-australia","10":"tag-fwc-constructive-dismissal-australia","11":"tag-jobs","12":"tag-late-wages-work-australia","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115125513343878816","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}