What details must a British pay advice contain?

[chomsky77]

Does the law say that British wage slips must contain the number of hours worked in the pay period, and if so what is the particular piece of legislation?

[auzzie]

http://www.dti.gov.uk/employment/employment-le gislation/employment-guidance/page16359.html

Try this site.

[chomsky77]

Thanks v much. The nub of the matter now seems to lie with the quesrtion as to whethert I am an 'employee' or not. I work as a free-lancer for an agency providing care services to people in their own ghomes or in units provided by, for example, charities concerned with people with certain handicaps. I'll have to make further searches to ascertain what my status is, before having a word with the people running the care agency - who may be within their rights. You have got me started off in my search, and I'm grateful.

[Gmcd01]

The answer to whether you're an employee or not is not 100% ascertainable without court action as it is decided on a policy basis case by case. However, if you do want to to find out whether you might be or not, there are a series of questions I can ask to help you determine it? Let me know, hope this helps!

[Buenchico]

This might help you:
http://www.direct.gov.uk/Employment/Employees/ EmploymentContractsAndConditions/ContractsAndC onditionsArticles/fs/en?CONTENT_ID=10027916&ch k=mJBXca

Chris

[chomsky77]

Thanks to both Gmcd01 and Buenchico/chris for yolur pointers. It does seem I'm a worker. However I'd have thought that 'workers', usually agency workers, are in sore need of fully itemised wage slips/advices since their hours, and the rates of pay for those hours, will vary from week to week, as do mine. I'll investigate past ET/IT decisons to see if any of these tribunals have had to wrestle with such cases, though it is unlikely anyone will have brought a case forward simply about wage slips as such - discrimination or holiday pay are more likely to induce people to try to use the law. Thanks both. chomsky77

[Cennet]

Any decision from an ET, or more likely a higher authority such as the Court of Appeal, on pay slips is likely to be quite old although still binding on ET's.

The Working Time Regulations of 1998 clarified the status of workers/employees and that case law is still quite recent

I think pay slips only have to contain gross pay , deductions and net pay

[chomsky77]

Thanks Cennet. I'll take a look at the Employment Rights Act and the 1986 Wages Act, both of which I think apply up here in Scotland. My only practicval knowledge of the application of Part 1 of the ERAct stems from a long-ago employer of mine, in effect, making illegal deductions from our wages, under section 13 of the '96 Act. The first 7 or 8 sections of the Wages Act deal with other aspects of the treatment of wages, and I think I must inspect both Acts to check whether any of the sections define exactly what a legal pay slip must contain.
So thanks, all, for the interest shown. I will also have a look at legal books such as those by Selwyn, Lockton, and the duo of Smith and Wood, and maybe the Penguin Guide to the Law if it still published. chomsky77/steve