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I employed a 25 year old as a supervisor, she was given a complete set of keys.
On the last day of her second week, she walked out after one hour (on our busiest day)without any explanation to anyone. I tried to contact her several times to discover the reason for her abrupt departure, but her husband assured she would call, she didn't. She refused to return the keys, and tried to use them as leverage to collect her wages. I had to have all the locks changed, received threating phone calls from her husband, and she accosts other members of staff to demand that they tell me to pay her wages.
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Emma Bell
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As I am unaware as to the terms of the employee's contract, I can only provide general advice to you.
The employee is entitled to be paid for the amount of days she has worked; in the absence of the contract I do not have any information to support any argument to the contrary. In addition, the employee will need to be paid for any part of a day's holiday that she has acrued.
Failure to pay her for the days she has worked would entitle her to make a claim to an Employment Tribunal of unlawful deduction from wages. The employee would have three months from the relevant payday to raise such a claim.
It is advisable to pay the employee the wages owed in exchange for the return of the keys.
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