My daughter-in-law works for a courier firm which is part of a franchise operation. She went up for the holiday pay she’d been promised, but her employer said he couldn’t afford to pay her until the end of the week, which meant she couldn’t afford to go away on holiday. Is there anything she can do about this?
It’s unlawful for an employer to refuse or fail to pay wages, and the employee’s remedy is to take the case to an employment tribunal. But assuming your daughter-in-law received her holiday pay the following Friday it’s unlikely that a tribunal would think it appropriate to ask the employer to compensate her, however inconvenient the late payment might have been.