I had an employee start work for me on the 15th July(my first employee). He's being paid monthly. Does it matter at all what time of the month he's paid? ie, is it fine to pay him on the 16th August for the work he did
Bitstring , from the wonderful person luke said
It would be easier for you (probably) to line up his pay periods with your accounting year, whatever that is, however it's between you and him.
Most big companies pay to the end of calendar months, and the tax/NI tables are probably set up for that. The real question to ask yourself is what you do when you get your =second= employee .. you surely don't want to be paying them all on different days.
Everywhere I've worked except for real casual labour as a student paid pro-rata for the first month or week, and then calendar monthly, or weekly, after that.
This is probably what your employee is/was expecting. The worst thing is to do nothing until such time as your employee becomes fed up (they have to eat too). I would advise you to pay a month's wages as soon as possible, then tell your employee when and how much the next pay packets will be. Talk to him to find out what is acceptable to both of you. Unpaid employees do not tend to be well motivated.
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what did those nice people next door at uk.business.payroll tell you?
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"Tumbleweed" wrote
Week/month "in hand" (paid in following period) or paid in week/month earnt (paid in same period as earnt) ??
We pay people at the end of the month they have actually worked. Generally there seems to be an understanding that payment should be made a couple of working days before the end of the month. If people have worked part of the month we make a pro-rata payment for that portion of the month they have worked, then give them a twelfth of their salary each subsequent month.
The exception is relief (casual) workers. They work one month and are paid at the end of the following month. This is purely so payroll can get timesheets in and process them for variable payments. We often give people and advance on their pay in their first month if this causes hardship to them. Additional hours or overtime is also paid a full month in arrears for the same reason.
Neb
What does his employment contract state?
Have you given him a copy of the necessary written terms? He is entitled to receive such a statement of conditions within 2 months of commencement.
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