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Pizza Hut ripoff refusal of paycheck too busy is the excuse Cresco Iowa
For the last three pay periods( bi-weekly) I have been refused my paycheck. When I go into the bussiness to pick up my check I ask for it and I am told that they are just too busy.
Our paychecks are in on Tuesday but we cannot pick them up until Wednesday ever other week. On a Wednesday I go to to my place of employment around 3:30pm after picking up the kids from school. When I am refused because they are too busy I find two tickets hanging up and no customers in the dinning room and all employees standing around or in the office talking.
If they are too busy how do they find the time to just stand around or sit and talk? And when I'm telling the employee that greets me that I need my check because I have things that I need to pay with it, why cant they just bend over and open up the safe? It would be much quicker to open the safe and hand it to me, then having a conversation with me and still no check.
On those Wednesdays when I am refused I am not happy about it. I come back to work on a Friday around 4:00pm and still am told that they are too busy. This particular Friday there were one dine in table of 3 customers and 2 or 3 tickets hanging up for carry-out service. Still no one working. But amazingly enough, still too busy to hand me my check.
On a different Friday night, I was at work. We had a busy night that night and when it calmed down I asked for my check. My General Manager told me that the safe locks up at 9:00pm and will not open untill the next morning.
I had to work night shift two days later. It was around 9:30pm when I asked for my check. The Manager that was working that night opened up the safe and handed me my check. hmmm...thought it couldnt open till the next morning??!! Did my General Manager lie to me??
I get payed again this Wednesday. Lets hope that I recieve my check when I ask for it this time.
unhappyemployee
bfe, Iowa
U.S.A.
7 Updates & Rebuttals
Kelly
Edgewood,Iowa,
U.S.A.
how to get your check
#8Consumer Suggestion
Wed, May 09, 2007
i went through a similar situation where an employer was going to withhold my paycheck and i was told by my attorney it is 100% illegal for an employer to withhold a paycheck for any reason, even if you owe them money. also the employer will be made to pay any attorney fees you incur to get your paycheck plus interest for every day that has passed since the day you were supposed to recieve your check so all you have to do is take them to court at their expense, of course if you still work there you don't want to do that
Kelly
Edgewood,Iowa,
U.S.A.
how to get your check
#8Consumer Suggestion
Wed, May 09, 2007
i went through a similar situation where an employer was going to withhold my paycheck and i was told by my attorney it is 100% illegal for an employer to withhold a paycheck for any reason, even if you owe them money. also the employer will be made to pay any attorney fees you incur to get your paycheck plus interest for every day that has passed since the day you were supposed to recieve your check so all you have to do is take them to court at their expense, of course if you still work there you don't want to do that
Kelly
Edgewood,Iowa,
U.S.A.
how to get your check
#8Consumer Suggestion
Wed, May 09, 2007
i went through a similar situation where an employer was going to withhold my paycheck and i was told by my attorney it is 100% illegal for an employer to withhold a paycheck for any reason, even if you owe them money. also the employer will be made to pay any attorney fees you incur to get your paycheck plus interest for every day that has passed since the day you were supposed to recieve your check so all you have to do is take them to court at their expense, of course if you still work there you don't want to do that
Kelly
Edgewood,Iowa,
U.S.A.
how to get your check
#8Consumer Suggestion
Wed, May 09, 2007
i went through a similar situation where an employer was going to withhold my paycheck and i was told by my attorney it is 100% illegal for an employer to withhold a paycheck for any reason, even if you owe them money. also the employer will be made to pay any attorney fees you incur to get your paycheck plus interest for every day that has passed since the day you were supposed to recieve your check so all you have to do is take them to court at their expense, of course if you still work there you don't want to do that
Sabrina
Cresco,Iowa,
U.S.A.
Appropriate Time................
#8Author of original report
Tue, April 24, 2007
Thank you for your comments. Yes there is an appropriate time to pick up our checks and the general manager has discussed this with me. The time is set between 1pm and 3pm. We are not allowed to pick up before opening hrs., even though there are employees there that are qualified to open the safe, nor after 9pm because of the safe being time locked.
Now, I work a second job and I am at that other place of employment until I go to pick up my children from school. That is the only time I have available to pick up my paycheck.
We are a small town and we do have our busy times of the days and 3:30-4pm is not one of them. Also the Fair Act Law of the state of Iowa states that it is illegal for a business or General Manager to refuse an employess paycheck when it is requested. Also the day the paychecks are available for pick up is the day that we are allowed to retrieve them and should be able to do so without these unexcusable refusals.
Not sure what else to say right now about this matter, except that I am still upset by it and that my place of employment IS making illegal actions based on the Fair Act Law of Iowa. I have contacted and spoke to a representative from the Iowa Civil Rights Commission in Des Moines, IA, and that representative gave me the concrete information on the Civil Act Law.
But thank you to those of you that did rebuttal. I do appreciate it and your thoughts have been honest.
-Unhappyemployee
Shawangunk
Middletown,New York,
U.S.A.
Restaurant pay checks
#8Consumer Comment
Mon, April 23, 2007
Just because the checks have been cut do not mean that you can pick them up immediately. Most restaurants only allow employees to pick up their check after a specific time. This allows them to get through the lunch and dinner rushes without having to go open the safe for each and every person that comes lollygaggling in for their check.
Restaurants normally go over the procedure for picking up checks during the orientation period. May I suggest you call the general manager to review this procedure so that you are on the same page with the company.
James
Cedar Rapids,Iowa,
U.S.A.
For Real?
#8UPDATE Employee
Mon, April 23, 2007
I work for an NPC Pizza Hut in Iowa, and it is NOT ok for them to not give you your paycheck upon request. If this complaint is for real, then all you should have to do is contact your Area General Manager. He or she will take care of the situation. We actaully have a pretty good group of AGM's in Iowa, and I am a little surprised to hear something like this comming from one of the Iowa stores.
I find it VERY hard to believe that an employee can ask any of her Managers for a paycheck and be refused, especially at 3:30 in the afternoon. This report is either bogus or a very easy to fix, non-issue.