Method and frequency of paying employees

New and updated

• Type:

  Employment law guide

  Basic pay and benefits

  Updated to include revised advisory fuel rates, effective from 1 December 2024. 

• Type:

  How to

  How to change the pay method for employees

  Updated to reflect the statutory code of practice on dismissal and re-engagement, which applies from 18 July 2024.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter to employee to authorise change to their pay date

  A model letter to an employee proposing to change their pay date.

• Type:

  Tasks

  Change the method of paying employees

• Type:

  FAQs

  Can an employer change the date on which it pays its employees?

• Date:

  31 December 2003

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Hepworth Heating Ltd v Akers and others

  In Hepworth Heating Ltd v Akers and others [2003] All ER (D) 33 (Jul) EAT, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that the employer had not used an unlawful act to compel acceptance of a cashless pay system. The employees might have been unhappy with the new terms, but there had been no duress.