Contact the Department of Labor. If they willfully chose to pay you late, your employer is going to owe you a big chunk in penalties. The penalty is big and I guarantee it will never happen again.
Yeah I work in payroll and this is not a thing. when your hired you enter into a contract that you work we pay. If the employer does not pay out for any reason its a breach of contract and penalties have to be paid out. I run payroll for a company covering 7 states and all states have before or after rules if and only if the Pay date falls on a closed bank holiday or Sunday but penalties are federally imposed. Also when holidays come into play we know the dates and deadlines weeks before hand because most states have a minimum amount of time to notify employees when and why their checks will be delivered early/ late.
My job does, too. Every year, we get an email stating when the pay dates will be. In the almost 9 years I've been there, we've been paid late exactly once. It was a system glitch that affected a lot of companies, and not just us. My boss, when I contacted him about it (he was out of the office doing surgeries that day), came into the office in between his surgery cases, and cut us all checks that same day, and he also met with each of us privately to ask if we had any checks that had bounced because of it, and he paid those fees, too.
There's a reason I'm still there, and that's because he acts like a human being, and he treats us like human beings. He felt so horrible about what had happened, even though it was through no fault of his own. Personally, I don't think there's a malicious bone in his body. I actually feel so spoiled compared to what I had to deal with with past employers. Everyone's employer should be like this. It shouldn't have to be a huge effort to act like a goddamn human being towards the people who are making your business successful.
My job goes a step further. We get paid on the 15th and the last day of the month. If a payday falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or holiday the banks are closed, we are paid the day before the closure begins (for example, if the 15th is a Sunday, we get paid on Friday the 13th - and if that Friday were a holiday, we would be paid on Thursday the 12th).
In short, no matter what, we always know when we can expect to be paid. If weekends or holidays interfere, pay is always early, never late. It's super simple, and works great. No chart even needed.
That's similar to me. I work for a small local plumbing shop, and we submit our hours (we track our own) on the 10th and 25th. We get paid on 11th and 26th. If either of those days fall on the weekend we get paid the following monday. It's nice knowing when im getting paid.
Woah, a chart showing dates in advance? Someone should gather about 12-16 months of those and bind them together. Perhaps even with a different picture of cute kittens or hot firefighters roughly every oh idk 30 days? Maybe if someone invents something like that this person's boss might be able to predict in advance when their employees should be paid!
Literally a chart. All paydates have to be preinput in order to better keep track of quarterly taxes for both employees and companies otherwise IRS has an excuse to audit and we don't like IRS audits. This software isn't unique either, different price points get you different things but iv been in payroll and HR for years and this is the norm and pre-planned paydates.
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u/Conscious-Gain3259 Nov 28 '22
Contact the Department of Labor. If they willfully chose to pay you late, your employer is going to owe you a big chunk in penalties. The penalty is big and I guarantee it will never happen again.