Employer screwed up my pay! = NO pay.

[fleetfoxRN]

Wow, I'm frustrated here.

I started my new job at the beginning of November (well, October 31st) and I was suppose to have gotten paid this past Friday, but I never got my pay check. I emailed my supervisor, who said she would look into it and get back to me on Monday for "sure". Sure enough, I have not had email from her. I also emailed the co-ordinator. They managed to get an email to me asking me when I'll be able to work on my own (I'm a new grad, so I need at least 5 shifts done before I can go on my own) YET, when I asked them if anyone knew about my pay check, what happened to it and if anyone has looked into it, no-one has emailed me back.

I'm very dissapointed... I work as a community nurse, so that money they are meant to pay me, is suppose to cover my car insurance I need in order to be insured to drive to the patients I see. Am I overreacting here, or has anyone had this happened to them?

I understand that they need to investigate to see if I am actually telling the truth (the money has to have gone 'somewhere'... just no-one knows 'where' is) but they very least they could have done was emailed me back to say "We are looking into it, we have to speak with so and so, I'll email you as soon as I know what's going on".

I don't want this pay to get added on to my pay from 2 weeks from now, since they will tax me even more. Besides, how do I know this won't happen again!

Has anyone else had this problem when they first started a job?

[Silverdragon102, BSN]

Moved to the Canadian forum

[Fiona59]

Contact Payroll yourself and then your shop steward.

[NotReady4PrimeTime, RN]

fleetfox, it happens all the time. And it also happens all the time that people higher up dodge responsibility for the failure and for following up on it. As Fiona59 suggests, you should contact your payroll department yourself, and if you have a union representing you, contact them as well and let them know this happened. The payroll department should then either cut you a cheque right away or issue you two separate pay deposits on your next payday. As for the tax situation finance people will tell you that isn't true... contrary to most people's experience.