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Well I recently started a job as a Company Accountant. By the third week I was totally stressed out and not sleeping, on the Friday I had a panic attack as I began to realise this job was impossible to do without working 60 hours a week. The two guys that owned and ran the company didn't even give me a chance to settle in plus I was do a handover with the current accountant. They gave me several projects to do and expected all to be done before Christmas!!
So on Monday this week I felt I had no option but to phone in and told them I would not be in due to stress.
The following day received letter by recorded delivery terminating my employment and told I was on garden leave for one month. They sent someone to collect my phone and laptop from my home address.
Today was supposed to be payday but not received a penny. Surely I should have been paid or do I get it all at the end of my garden leave plus accrued holiday? Anyone had a similar experience?
Err . . . was doing the payroll one of your tasks?
Well it would have been in the future!! But the person that normally does it works until 31st December
Youve done pretty well to get a months paid holiday out of it, go ride your bike and i wouldnt worry about pay yet. Its very likely that as this is all come about close to the end of the month and at christmas that it will be late or all settled at the end of your gardening leave period - ask them not us what they are doing but given timings and the fact youre the accountant and depending on the company size might well have casued them a lot of grief by departing now I wouldnt push it.
You wont get any extra for accrued holdiay - that will just get used in the gardening leave.
You should have been paid as usual. The fact you haven't means you are free to pursue other interests.
If you just did a day and then stuck your notice in they owe you a months salary.
Good luck getting it off them. I doubt they will be giving you anything
By law they should have paid you,but I suspect the fact they haven't means you're going to have to fight to get it.
I'd be asking them why you haven't been paid and go from there.
By the third week I was totally stressed out and not sleeping, on the Friday I had a panic attack as I began to realise this job was impossible to do without working 60 hours a week
Did you not speak to your employer and explain the situation? Why was the current accountant leaving? Could he do the job without working 60 hrs a week?
To go sick leave with stress in the 1st month was never going to end well.
Some things just don't work out. I've done freelance jobs where expectations were so different on each side that it was impossible to achieve anything and we've just called it quits after a few weeks and I felt embarrassed to put in an invoice for the time spent but I couldn't afford not to.
This sounds like either you've not managed their expectations of what was possible or they've treated this as a test and you've cracked. Either way you're best off out of there. I'd be happy to get paid for what you've done and anything else is a bonus.
What's your contract say about notice in the first month/6 normally it's a lot shorter so potentially that could be one of the reasons
Leaving aside the whys and wherefores, you’re owed the money for the time you’ve worked.
You may also get statutory dick pay during your notice period. You should also be paid for your notice period.
It sounds like it will be a hassle recovering it, but you should prevail. Speak to a solicitor.
And get cracking finding another job - it’s probably short enough not to put it on your CV..!
PS I’ve recently pulled the plug after 6 months in a job. Missold to me and self-awareness tells me I’m not the right person for them.
I have nothing useful to add, but
statutory dick pay
sounds like my salary.
Accountant here and I jumped a job after 6 weeks - totally mis-sold it and it was way too much hassle - went to work for a big local accountants doing Financial Controller role for various clients - turned out a right pain, as the clients financial staff were incompetent and would mess everything up every month.
You should be paid though.
Good luck with the future.
You should be paid what you've worked. You won't have worked long enough to gain any annual leave and finally gardnening leave is a term nothing official. If you want paid you see a self certificate for the first 7 days and sick note from you GP after that. You may only get statuary sick pay, if you don't get an note then you failed to turn in for work so may not get paid.
You may have received nothing yet as pay day may not be until the end of the month.
Well no, garden leave is a thing. If you’ve been put on garden leave for a month that suggests you have a month’s notice (for which you should definitely be paid) but they don’t want you in the office for whatever reason.
The fact they’ve not paid you just makes them dicks. Given the situation this doesn’t sound like a surprise!