I have direct deposit and my district has always been good about taking into account banking days. If my payday is on a Sunday I get my DD on Friday; if payday is on a Monday then I get my DD on Saturday - always at midnight or thereabouts so I wake up on Friday and BOOM there’s my paycheck.
We are scheduled to be paid today Tuesday except my district didn’t put it in until Friday night so not processed over the weekend but processed yesterday right? Except payroll apparently forgot yesterday was Washington’s Birthday, a federal holiday so no pay for Cad today. Oh and it’s not payroll’s fault according to them. It’s my banks’ fault (both of them because I split deposits) for not processing it on a Federal holiday.
Damn, sucks they didn’t think ahead, but I don’t think it is really their fault. In the bad old days they would’ve handed out the checks today.
Honestly in this day and age, payroll DD from companies should probably be automatic unless it trips some alerts. The banks really are lazy about modernizing.
Not in my case, in this situation (payday on Monday which turns out to be a holiday) we would have gotten our checks on Friday. Weekly-paid employees were always paid on Friday (reduced those cough-cough 3-day weekends and avoided most holidays); bi-monthly paid employees did occasionally run up against this issue, and it was always handled correctly.
He said he was suppose to be paid on Tuesday (today), not Monday.
If it was Monday, I would agree with you.
Our pay schedule changed on January 1st. Instead of being paid on the 1st and 15th, we’re now being paid on the 5th and the 20th. I used to see my pay deposited up to two days early. Due to the Martin Luther King and Presidents Day holidays, my pay has been late twice. This is the first month in a year I’ve not been able to pay off my credit cards. (I stole some money from Savings last month.) We had to (no option) get a new roof last Fall, so I have loan payments. Thinks were ‘OK’ until the schedule change. Now I have a mortgage payment on the first (used to know the money would always be there) and a roof loan payment on the 7th. It’s causing a bit of juggling.
40 years ago the job I was working paid every other Friday and about once a quarter the direct deposit folks would get a notice Thursday morning from payroll that they hadn’t gotten the data to the local banks Wednesday evening but they had contacted the banks telling them they’d make good on the usual amounts – any overtime would be taken care of later but at least you’d get your 40-hour paycheck.
Inept to be sure but most banks would be okay with that and credit an amount. Not mine. Their attitude was, “We don’t get the data – you don’t get the money.” After about three times I closed the account and went to another bank.
Got an email reminding us it was payday today and for all of us affected, it is up to the bank to have the money in by the end of the other day. In other words, you can’t hold us to the contract because we did our part.
I’m currently getting paid fortnightly on a Wednesday so it’s not a problem now, but I used to get paid twice a month (15th and last day). The payroll system was pretty good. They basically ensured that the person with the slowest bank would get their money on payday or the last business day prior to payday in the event it was a weekend or public holiday. This meant most people got theirs a day early at least.
I had once that I forgot about Veteran’s Day. It was on a Friday, or more importantly, it was on payday Friday.
I really didn’t even think about it until employees started showing up that day, and telling me that they didn’t get their direct deposit that morning. After looking into it and finding it to be my error, I was extremely apologetic, and did everything I could to make things right.
I was much more aware of bank holidays after that.
Point is, this is on your employer, not your bank. It sucks that the banks have weird days off, but it’s still your employer’s responsibility to either (preferably) run the payroll early so you get paid before the holiday, or at the very least, inform employees of the delay in pay ahead of time.
Happened today. No one in my district got paid. District said oopsie doopsie, the system went down last night. But
People are questioning what a coincidence since the district is in negotiations with the workers and are playing hard ball by refusing to do real negotiations.
We got our pay stubs yesterday morning. Anyone here familiar with payroll who can tell me why the money transfer would not be done at the same time as payroll stubs are?
District has still not communicated to teachers … even an email saying, “Hey, we recognize no one got paid.” But they have said to the union the situation will be resolved “soon”. “Soon” is currently undefined.