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My son, who is 19yrs old needs some help. He was working as a carer for 4 months and literally, could not cope. He is a fit and healthy young lad, but they had him working from 6:30am - 10:30pm with not much of a break inbetween. No matter how often he asked them to cut his hours, they would for a few days and then up it again. It all got too much and he handed in his notice. The hours they gave him to work in the last week were just as crazy and he was concerned that he was going to do something wrong, not care well for a patient etc due to being exhausted. They would not listen and made him feel so uncomfortable, he could just not go in. They have now not paid him his final pay for the reasons below: I feel this is grossly unfair and would really appreciate some advice. This is the last email he has received from them. I feel it is very intimidating and threatening and he is beside himself with worry. Please help. thank you
Dear XXXXX
In refusing to honour your notice period, you are in breach of contract. As such costs associated with this breach are permitted by law to be deducted from your final wage.
To clarify these deductions were;
£126.95 cost of managers time to re-cover work allocated to you in your contractual notice period.
£108.63 cost of the work allocated to another care worker during holiday days taken in holiday year 2022 that you had not yet accrued.
£274.75 cost of care supervisor and field care supervisor to cover your allocated work during your contractual notice period including lost administrative time. (I have had to reduce this significantly due to your earnings not covering the total cost of £440 in total).
Not deducted also due to insufficient funds was DBS (£59.20), Uniforms (£20 each), Jacket (£35), Handbook (£15), training expenses (total to be confirmed) etc.
I will not be entering into any discussion with a family member of yours, due to the confidential information involved relating to our customers. As detailed in the invitations to disciplinary meetings, you would have been permitted to bring a colleague with you to discuss this, unfortunately you chose not to attend either opportunity.
I expect all company property to be returned to your branch office at your earliest convenience (and accepted by a member of staff to confirm). If this is not done, due to the nature and the possible mis-use of uniforms and company ID a report will be made to Wiltshire Police regarding theft of company property. If all property is returned I will not be perusing a claim for the additional costs detailed above.
Kind regards,
My son, who is 19yrs old needs some help. He was working as a carer for 4 months and literally, could not cope. He is a fit and healthy young lad, but they had him working from 6:30am - 10:30pm with not much of a break inbetween. No matter how often he asked them to cut his hours, they would for a few days and then up it again. It all got too much and he handed in his notice. The hours they gave him to work in the last week were just as crazy and he was concerned that he was going to do something wrong, not care well for a patient etc due to being exhausted. They would not listen and made him feel so uncomfortable, he could just not go in. They have now not paid him his final pay for the reasons below: I feel this is grossly unfair and would really appreciate some advice. This is the last email he has received from them. I feel it is very intimidating and threatening and he is beside himself with worry. Please help. thank you
Dear XXXXX
In refusing to honour your notice period, you are in breach of contract. As such costs associated with this breach are permitted by law to be deducted from your final wage.
To clarify these deductions were;
£126.95 cost of managers time to re-cover work allocated to you in your contractual notice period.
£108.63 cost of the work allocated to another care worker during holiday days taken in holiday year 2022 that you had not yet accrued.
£274.75 cost of care supervisor and field care supervisor to cover your allocated work during your contractual notice period including lost administrative time. (I have had to reduce this significantly due to your earnings not covering the total cost of £440 in total).
Not deducted also due to insufficient funds was DBS (£59.20), Uniforms (£20 each), Jacket (£35), Handbook (£15), training expenses (total to be confirmed) etc.
I will not be entering into any discussion with a family member of yours, due to the confidential information involved relating to our customers. As detailed in the invitations to disciplinary meetings, you would have been permitted to bring a colleague with you to discuss this, unfortunately you chose not to attend either opportunity.
I expect all company property to be returned to your branch office at your earliest convenience (and accepted by a member of staff to confirm). If this is not done, due to the nature and the possible mis-use of uniforms and company ID a report will be made to Wiltshire Police regarding theft of company property. If all property is returned I will not be perusing a claim for the additional costs detailed above.
Kind regards,
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