Overused Holidays taken out of wages

[sheepy19]

I've worked for over 10 years but decided I'd had enough and to leave Royal Mail. I got another job. So I handed in my notice with 4 weeks to go out of courtesy (even though you only need to give one).

On Friday I got a text from my bank saying I've been charged for going over my overdraft limit. So when I looked in my bank I'd seen I hadn't been paid this week. I logged into the people app and saw my payslip was 0.00. Although when I opened it, it actually said £-213!
What they've done is charged me £790 or 55 hours overused holidays. Although I can't work out how they've worked it out, I'm not disputing that I would need to pay back holidays (I've used 4 weeks in half a year) i purchase 2 weeks also...

But I've been left to borrow off family to get me through the next few weeks and incur overdraft charges. I am leaving at the end of the month so I've still got 3 more payslips to go. I would have been prepared to come to some sort of agreement or spread it over the last few weeks. I think its completely out of
order to not inform me they were going to do this. I couldn't get through to HR on Friday and I'm not sure they would be very sympathetic.

So just want to know are they allowed to do this? I feel like a mug for even giving them notice should have just walked out on my last day! I'm not expecting them to pay my overdraft charges.

[koolishy67]

There calculation you should just walk away

[qwerty2]

Money grabbing scumbags
go on the sick for the last 3 weeks

[pieoftheday]

So we get paid when we're on leave right? But because you've given 4 weeks notice they have effectively taken your holiday pay back? Am I reading it right?

[P13]

So we get paid when we're on leave right? But because you've given 4 weeks notice they have effectively taken your holiday pay back? Am I reading it right?

No, they appear to have used too many holidays as we are only 6 months into the holiday period .

[Superdude]

Why would you give them any notice if they don’t owe you anything? Wait ‘til the money clears your account on payday & f**k off. They don’t deserve your honesty.

[loyalsnail]

I've worked for over 10 years but decided I'd had enough and to leave Royal Mail. I got another job. So I handed in my notice with 4 weeks to go out of courtesy (even though you only need to give one).

On Friday I got a text from my bank saying I've been charged for going over my overdraft limit. So when I looked in my bank I'd seen I hadn't been paid this week. I logged into the people app and saw my payslip was 0.00. Although when I opened it, it actually said £-213!
What they've done is charged me £790 or 55 hours overused holidays. Although I can't work out how they've worked it out, I'm not disputing that I would need to pay back holidays (I've used 4 weeks in half a year) i purchase 2 weeks also...

But I've been left to borrow off family to get me through the next few weeks and incur overdraft charges. I am leaving at the end of the month so I've still got 3 more payslips to go. I would have been prepared to come to some sort of agreement or spread it over the last few weeks. I think its completely out of
order to not inform me they were going to do this. I couldn't get through to HR on Friday and I'm not sure they would be very sympathetic.

So just want to know are they allowed to do this? I feel like a mug for even giving them notice should have just walked out on my last day! I'm not expecting them to pay my overdraft charges.

Ridiculous thing for them to do; plenty of time for you to withdraw your resignation in which case no overpayment for excess leave. Definitely raise a ticket through the People App as they shouldn't preemptively recover at this stage.

[sheepy19]

So we get paid when we're on leave right? But because you've given 4 weeks notice they have effectively taken your holiday pay back? Am I reading it right?

Your leave is accrued by working throughout the year from april to april, so in theory if u left and hadn't used your holidays you should be reimbursed. Cos im leaving end of September its more or less half way through the year but I've used more than half of the year's holidays so i "owe" them. Just very cheeky what they've done it and im still paying for purchase of annual leave so its all a bit snidey and suspicious!

[mwalker88]

Every screenshot of the App I have lists annual leave from:

1st March 2023 to 31st March 2024 etc.

Any idea why that is?