2 separate deduction of wages

[Arnold]

Hi

My garden leave finished on 31/08, and on the same day I received my final payslip and wages for August. I was full time salaried employee. My payslip included a deduction "Expense Float" £500. I had no previous communication regards this. I queried this with them, they sent me an itemised statement of expenses that totalled £425.71 for items with no previous receipts, stating they had "held back my salary" until I provided receipts for these items. I can do this, they were for May 2018, all present just not handed in when I resigned.
Should the company have withheld £500 when the amount was less
Should the company have withheld anything without informing me.
There is no provision in my contract that mentions deductions authorised as expense float. The clause relating to deduction is:
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DEDUCTIONS

The Company has the right to deduct from your pay any sums which you may owe the Company including, without limitation, any overpayments or loans made to you by the Company or payments made by mistake or losses suffered by the Company as a result of your negligence or breach of the Company’s rules or other payments that require to be authorised under section 13 of the ERA.



Deductions for losses suffered through negligence or breach of rules will only apply where you have also committed a criminal act by doing so.

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Secondly, they did not include 10 days of owed holiday pay. They stated this was an "oversight" agreed I was owed 10 days and have stated they will sort this out on Monday

Should I expect immediate payment of the holiday due
Should I expect immediate payment of the difference in "expense float"

I'm annoyed with this situation as I heard nothing from them, just a rounded up deduction and an "oversight" in holiday pay

Thanks

Arnold

[MIKE770]

do you have the receipts? to prove expence? meanyime hope it gets sorted Monday for you?

[Arnold]

I do, all bar a couple of coffees and a train ticket, which are work related just lost receipts. I'm ok with the expense issue to be fair, my fault for not submitting, just the lack of communication, the excessive amount held back and the oversight in due holiday pay! Thats where I feel annoyed with them

[mariefab]

I expect that the expense float would qualify as a loan. So, a deduction would be covered by the contractual clause without the need to inform you . But they shouldn't have rounded it up to £500.
I'm not surprised that you're annoyed. Checking if there's holiday pay due should be routine practice in final salary calculations.

When this sort of thing happens most firms correct it in the next pay run. But as yours has said that they'll sort the holiday pay on Monday I suggest that you get the receipts to them quickly so that they can deal with both issues together.