Paydates
cnghr
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I know that in most states, you have to let your employees know when you intend to pay them, and if you are going to change payday to another date for some reason, you have to give a reasonable amount of notice. In my state it's by the payday before the one you're changing.
My husband's company has issues with getting the payroll paid on time. They are supposed to pay on the 5th and 20th of each month, but instead it's more like "around" the 5th and 20th. They pay on a semi-monthly basis. In the time he's worked there, it's been early a few times, on time a few times, and late several times. Usually it's only a case of his direct deposit hitting the account one day after it was supposed to, although last payday it was two days late. Today should be payday, but once again, his direct deposit didn't show up.
He asked his boss about it and was told something about some federal something-or-other (pardon my vagueness, I got this from my DH and he didn't understand so wasn't able to communicate it to me very well) that allowed it to be more of an approximate date rather than right on the date itself, and then he said "Your wife should be very familiar with that if she's worked with payroll." I've worked with payroll for over 18 years and have never heard of any such thing. We've never paid on any date except the one we tell our employees we're going to pay them on, and I've never heard of any loophole that would allow us to pay somewhere around that date and not right on the date we say we're going to. Do any of you who work with or have worked with payroll know anything about something like this?
We're both very frustrated with this company...they have a mere fraction of the number of employees of my company, yet can't manage to pay on time most paydays when we manage to pay on time every payday!
My husband's company has issues with getting the payroll paid on time. They are supposed to pay on the 5th and 20th of each month, but instead it's more like "around" the 5th and 20th. They pay on a semi-monthly basis. In the time he's worked there, it's been early a few times, on time a few times, and late several times. Usually it's only a case of his direct deposit hitting the account one day after it was supposed to, although last payday it was two days late. Today should be payday, but once again, his direct deposit didn't show up.
He asked his boss about it and was told something about some federal something-or-other (pardon my vagueness, I got this from my DH and he didn't understand so wasn't able to communicate it to me very well) that allowed it to be more of an approximate date rather than right on the date itself, and then he said "Your wife should be very familiar with that if she's worked with payroll." I've worked with payroll for over 18 years and have never heard of any such thing. We've never paid on any date except the one we tell our employees we're going to pay them on, and I've never heard of any loophole that would allow us to pay somewhere around that date and not right on the date we say we're going to. Do any of you who work with or have worked with payroll know anything about something like this?
We're both very frustrated with this company...they have a mere fraction of the number of employees of my company, yet can't manage to pay on time most paydays when we manage to pay on time every payday!
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Hope that helps.
This is so frustrating, largely because I've been involved in payroll for as long as I have and have always managed to pay all my employees on time!
Look at AK stat.23.05.140, 23.05.180, 23.05.280. These require semi-monthly or monthly payments and list the penalties for non-compliance. Hope this helps.
>here it is: the company's employee handbook (which we finally managed to get
>our hands on a copy of)
That certainly leads to more questions. Why didn't your husband already have a copy of the handbook? And why did you have trouble getting a copy? All our employees receive a handbook when they are hired, another every time we update, which is about every 2 years, and within a day or two of requesting a new copy because they can't find their copy.
Here, if somebody wants a hard copy of our handbook because they don't have access to a computer (which is a rare occurance anymore) I just ask their supervisor or somebody else at their location to print it out for them.
Aha, Joannie, I just read your new post and I see you understand very well the issues my truck driver husband has with not having computer access!