Not paid for holiday + missing hours

[sosna]

Quick brief of the situation, I have started working through the agency on Sunday 12th July 2015. This was my first job ever, they have given me training for 1 week (sent home 2 hours earlier as no work, got told it would be paid but wasn't), the second week I have worked normal and got paid full hours. Before starting with them I have told about a pre booked holiday which they were fine with and told me it would be paid. The third week of my working there it was the holiday which went in to the first day of 4th week. Unfortunately I had to quit the job as I have received an offer to go to university with an interview the following day of me coming back. Although I know it wasn't a nice thing to do, I got in contact with them told about the situation and they said it was fine.

The problem now is I should get a payslip on Thursday but nothing, today is Friday and I didn't get paid either. I am unsure what to do as this is my first job ever and I have never been in a situation like this before, nor anyone from my family. I would like to get advice from people on this forum to see what my best options are. I would appreciate all of your help and if you need any more information please don't hesitate to ask. Thanks

[teaboy2]

Re: Not paid for holiday + missing hours

To be honest, whilst your entitled to holiday pay, you would not have accrued enough holidays to cover the whole week, so you would have actually ended up owing the agency money if they had paid you and you then left. Fact is they haven't paid you for holidays you had accrued, but personally the amount owed to you probably wouldn't be worth the hassle and stress of taking legal action to claim it from them.

I would simply put it down to experience and forget about it to be honest. as you probably only accrued 1 day holiday and that's if you worked 5 days a week for those 2 weeks prior to going on holiday! If you worked less than 5 days a week you could have accrued anything from 0.1 days to 0.8 days!

As for the non payment of 2 hours, well agency workers are only paid for hours they are required to work, so it depends of your contract hours really but its likely you were on a zero hour contract, and therefore wouldn't be entitled to those 2 hours where you were sent home when they didn't need you.

Personally advice for the future - Never take on agency work again as your rights as an agency worker are limited and your not guaranteed to get work each week!