I am due to retire and wondered if I will get any holiday pay that I have accrued ..I've used all this years ....
Maybe you'll get a years worth as a nice send off. They could never get the wages right in my store. You'd work the same hours and have a different take home wage every pay day.
Quote from: The hooch on 23-03-22, 09:52PM
I am due to retire and wondered if I will get any holiday pay that I have accrued ..I've used all this years ....
You should be paid any holiday not taken before you leave. This should be worked out for your final leaving date. If you have worked for the company a long time, and worked time in hand when you started, this should be paid at the rate and hours you now work, and not the hours/rate of when you started. If this is the case, then you should ask you manager or rep, to assist in claiming back that time as pay BEFORE you leave, as once you leave any monies outstanding will become very difficult to liaise with your store and payroll in claiming it back!
If you are retiring at the full retirement age, I hope you were given a fifth of your working week hours off, fully paid for the last six months??
Also of note, if you are at full retirement age, and your age plus the years worked with the company add up to 80 then you keep your discount card for life.
Thanks for your sensible and well written reply. I did work a week in hand back in 1997 when I started working for Stressco. I will look into that. And yes I have reduced my hours and I definitely have worked long enough to retain my discount card for life..( however long that may be after 25 years working on nights )..I still dont know if I will get any holiday pay that I have built up for next year though??
Your holiday entitlement is earned as you go through the year, so for example if you complete 3 months of the next holiday year and took no holiday, you'd be paid 1/4 of your annual entitlement.
Well after 25 years I have finally retired. I have no idea what my pay will be next ( and last ) payday.
I'm presuming I will get the bonus and hopefully my week in hand from all those years ago. I should get a bit of holiday pay but I had no exit meeting so was told nothing.
I thought I would be informed of stuff I needed to know like...what do I do with my new uniform that I've worn 13 times and how I go about keeping my discount card etc etc
I was also put back into the new pension scheme a couple of months ago and need to get that back. I have phoned the pensions who seem unaware that I have left.
I attempted to phone colleague help who also seem unaware that I have left. Maybe I will get an AWAL letter. ..better still I could phone in sick as I was on the old contract and therefore got paid the first 3 days. Also on the My Shift app I'm still supposed to be in..lol
The current Store Manager at Silverburn should retire.
Happy retirement The hooch :thumbup:
It could be that you haven't yet been processed as a leaver until your final pay, when you should have all monies and holiday pay.
If you informed your store of your accrued weeks pay, from when you started, this should also be paid at the same time.
You are expected to return your uniform, though mine went in the bin as it was that old, I've kept the fleece, it does for outside work in the winter!
Your pensions are a bit hit and miss...I took my defined out a few years ago, when they changed pension providers, I started new one and contributed the full 7.5 to be matched! That I withdrew last year, as the annual allowance was pitiful, and I'll get my tax rebated. Funnily enough, I've just be given another 2k from another pension pot ( smart pension) with Tesco that I was unaware of :o
Are you retiring as you've reached the retirement age?? If so, the pension dept should have been informed of your pending retirement 6 months previously?
Your staff shares will cease, and you will be paid them all at the current day % rate.
Your should be able to retain and continue using your colleague discount card, if your age + years of service total 80 yrs. if not, then they will just block it, once you have received your final pay day.
Happy retirement The hooch :thumbup:
ENJOY 8)
All the best hooch.
Wishing you a very happy retirement, The Hooch. I'm well jel (as the youngsters say) :thumbup:
Retirement total c**k up
1. No exit meeting
2. No confirmation in reply to my intention to retire letter.
3. No notification in writing of my new hours after dropping a fifth of my working week..eventually.
4. No wages last payday
5.p45 received saying I retired on March 19th ..I retired May 4th.
6. Equinity letter stating March 19th
7.letters from payrole demanding all of April's pay to be returned and half of March..and they will not issue a new p45 till this has been replayed
8. Payrole breakdown of monies owed include 2 student loan payments...I've never had a student loan.
9 Plaque arrives through the post ..Thanking me for 3 years service..I've DONE 25 years of hard labour on nights.
10..Have spent 3 weeks on the phone getting nowhere
11. Have spoken to wages managers etc
12. Now they are saying that I dont qualify for the bonus.
Can someone please help me..
I cant even get on the wageslip app anymore.
I still have had no wages
Good grief :o 8-)
So much for a relaxing retirement ???
Is your correspondence from payroll quoting your correct employee number?
'Phone duty and ask whoever answers for the contact details of the head of personnel for the group, or at least the area PP, for you to contact to gain the information you need, in regard of Tesco acting illegally by withholding all monies due!
If you were in the union, 'phone their area office and ask for representation in support of securing said illegal practice, and lack of support from the wages manager!
This is scandalous, it could affect your state pension entitlements, your tax code, your credit rating, especially if the alleged loans are not repaid and left to sit on file, you could be black listed!
Contact ACAS for advice. Check your local solicitors, as some do hold free advice surgeries at certain times! Contact citizens advice. You can also email the pensions team, and inform them of the situation, and your intent to bring Tesco to task regarding acting illegally, as withholding wage payments is illegal!
Thank you for your quick response. I have done most of what you suggest but I keep hitting brick walls.
I am still in the union and am getting support from them but nothing is happening
I think they have mixed me up with someone else who has retired after 3 years and used to be a student.
Makes me feel totally unappreciated after working nights for 25 years
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There are some heads that need banging together here!!
You need definite answers, have you had a meeting with the wages manager and your area union rep!
Request a face to face meeting with the area personnel officer, the store manager, your area rep and yourself, making it clear of the date of your original query with regard the initial logging of this complaint to the company, as there are time constraints regarding bringing it to a tribunal.
If they have mixed you up, someone else could technically gain access to your personal details, especially if the pension people start communicating with them instead of you! Your staff shares you've built up will be sold, as your no longer an employee, this other person could have access to this.
This may explain why they didn't acknowledge your pending retirement, and contact you with regard you Tesco retirement benefits of keeping your discount and contact numbers for the Tesco Retirees association?
Does your discount card still work?
I think you are correct in the fact that it looks like they have mixed you up with another person. If the mistake has been made at store level it may be easier to trace and then correct. If you are getting nowhere with your old manger or the manager responsible for wages you need to go higher. Don't trust to conversations. Get everything documented. Cover your back at every stage.
Do what I did and contact the Hed Honcho, dont bother with the little people at store level, mine was under similar circumstances, sorted withn 2 weeks.
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As both you and The hooch are VLH supporters, perhaps you could PM The hooch to point him/her in the right direction with regard who to contact and your success, retaining both your privacy :thumbup:
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There are some heads that need banging together here!!
You need definite answers, have you had a meeting with the wages manager and your area union rep!
Request a face to face meeting with the area personnel officer, the store manager, your area rep and yourself, making it clear of the date of your original query with regard the initial logging of this complaint to the company, as there are time constraints regarding bringing it to a tribunal.
If they have mixed you up, someone else could technically gain access to your personal details, especially if the pension people start communicating with them instead of you! Your staff shares you've built up will be sold, as your no longer an employee, this other person could have access to this.
This may explain why they didn't acknowledge your pending retirement, and contact you with regard you Tesco retirement benefits of keeping your discount and contact numbers for the Tesco Retirees association?
Does your discount card still work?
I was sent a new colleague card for life and it works so club card have got something right. Back in February I got my 25 year thank you award so where they got the 3 years from is anybody's guess
I also cannot access my wageslips online anymore and need wage information for Universal credit. Store manager told me I cant access them because I dont work for Tesco anymore. Surely I should be able to access them. Sick of all this stress. I was off sick a couple of years ago fof 8 months with stress and panic attacks..I'm struggling to keep my anxiety under control
The amount your paid will be on your bank statement,not sure if they accept that as proof,but maybe its a short term solution
toscos p**s up brewery. fit perfectly well into the same sentence
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Quote from: The hooch on 20-06-22, 12:52AMI also cannot access my wageslips online anymore and need wage information for Universal credit. Store manager told me I cant access them because I dont work for Tesco anymore. Surely I should be able to access them. Sick of all this stress. I was off sick a couple of years ago fof 8 months with stress and panic attacks..I'm struggling to keep my anxiety under control
best thing is to be glad you're gone. they are experts at making people depressed and anxious. main reason p**s up brewery as usual
Sorry if I have piggy backed this, I have retired from Tesco and still hold my colleague discount card, I use this for shopping mainly, but trying to get a new phone,but cannot remember the retirement prefix number, they gave me can anyone help
hope this will help any one who has retired from tesco and still owed money ect ken.murphy@tesco.com, i have found if you go to the top you will get things done quicker,good luck.
If you have Clubcard for life use your employee number with prefix CC4L (Any zeroes will be removed from your employee number i.e. 00361352 would need to be CC4L361352)
i am coming up for state retirement age soon and was looking at may be staying on after retirement for a little while should redundacy be offered after this date could both company redundancy payout and or statutary payout be effected as i have noticed that the VHL calculator stops at age 66
tHANKYOU.
I can't see that you'd suffer a detriment for being over retirement age? We had a deli counter colleague in her 70's who received the full package.
If you haven't notified Tesco of your intention to retire from the company then you are still in their employ so it remains the status quo.
In your post you say you want to stay on after retirement, so if you have notified them of your intent to retire then that's the cut off point for them and you're processed as a retiree and receive the pre 6 months drop of hours by a fifth but still paid for full shift, then date of retirement you have left the company. Then new contract, and length of service kicks in at 0.
The legal age of 66 is the ceiling in calculations,for age ratio and % of pay as someone in their 30's with the same length of service as someone in their 50's would receive less redundancy payout, due to more years in potential employment earnings remaining...as was my understanding. So a 70 year old would still have their full length of service calculated, but the extra age related component would stop at 66.
hi thankyou for your reply
If you want the retirement package of 20% of your hours, do you have to give your manager 6 months notice or can it be any length up to 6 months? It's not quite clear on Colleague Help.
The 20% reduction in hours is for 6 months previous to retirement. Anyone thinking of retiring should be informing their manager at least 8 months previously, as it has to be fed through to the pensions team to be made aware and start processing.
If you're thinking of retiring in less than six months, you'd only get the remaining months at 20%, but then it's not going to be automatic as they do require notice. A manager may agree to start your reduction sooner, but even then you have to agree when it's taken in your working week.
Anyone thinking of retirement, I would advise the 8 month route, even if it means working those few weeks longer. As any holidays due need to be agreed as paid or holiday. Deciding and agreeing when you're taking it, as they'll likely want a drop early week and you weekend, so you'll both need to compromise. It also gives more time to receive all relevant acknowledgement from the pension dept.
N*B*. If you're an old timer colleague who worked a week in hand at the beginning of your employment with Tesco, then you need to ask for your accrued pay for one week on your then contracted hours.
Once you leave Tesco it is very hard to get any discrepancies sorted, so the longer you give yourself the more likely you'll get all your information and paid dues owing.