Advice needed on restaurant not paying staff for full hours worked.

[brigadear]

Hi I am looking for a bit advice here. My wife works in a resturant and is having probleams at work regarding pay and hours. Last week she and everone else at work didnt get paid, they did get paid eventually, 2 days later, they received no payslips, but today they received the payslips, and they were all short 1 hour, and for this weeks pay they are all short a further 3 hours. The boss there is saying she dosent have the money to pay. My wife suggested if she cant pay her, they next week she takes a day off as she is already owed an extra 4 hours, and the boss refused this. The boss has also said that at the end of the day, she wont be paying overtime to clean up, as it is the employees fault that the restaurant is dirty. Can anybody advise me here on where to go, my wife is worried that if shes pushes to hard on this, the manager will then use this as an excuse to sack her.

 

[tenchi-fan]

I worked in several jobs before.. including Dunnes Stores.
The rostered hours might be 6pm - 11pm, but the clock stopped at 11pm. But we didn't get out until all the shelves were faced off and the place was clean. This might have been the managers policy rather than store policy.
The managers had it even worse. They were rostered in hours where there was no way they could do all their work on time, and they were salaried.

While it's not reasonable to dock people hours just because there wasn't enough money to pay employees, a few minutes in the evenings to tidy up isn't unreasonable. In plenty of shops closing time is 6pm, but the doors open til 6. If a customer stays til 6.15 it might take another 20 mins to count the til and lock up.

 

[brigadear]

I worked in several jobs before.. including Dunnes Stores.
The rostered hours might be 6pm - 11pm, but the clock stopped at 11pm. But we didn't get out until all the shelves were faced off and the place was clean. This might have been the managers policy rather than store policy.
The managers had it even worse. They were rostered in hours where there was no way they could do all their work on time, and they were salaried.

While it's not reasonable to dock people hours just because there wasn't enough money to pay employees, a few minutes in the evenings to tidy up isn't unreasonable. In plenty of shops closing time is 6pm, but the doors open til 6. If a customer stays til 6.15 it might take another 20 mins to count the til and lock up.

Am not talking about 15 mins but 2 or 3 hours. Restaurant closes at 4pm and usually on average 1 hour to clean up, and other days a bit longer. The issue that is at hand isnt the o/t, it is the fact that the employees are not being paid for their work.