Advice needed! Money owed!

[hammondlj]

Hello everyone hope i am posting in the right place! Sorry if not!

I have come to find myself i a difficult position for the last 8 years i have been working on my partners parents farm recently our relationship has become unworkable and i feel i need to get out. However i am owed several months worth of wages. I have tried speaki g to her parents abkut this issuse but they just say well sort it but nothing happens this has been the case for the last 4 months at least! I have agreed the i will finish harvest for them and then ill be off but i am very concerned about the amount they owr me What would people here advise i do?

Many thanks

 

[Courier]

Send them an invoice for a specific period with 30 days to pay.

 

[Flatlander]

Advise them that you want paying or work stops. Unless you’ve agreed a wage or amount per hour it’s going to be hard to get the exact amount. Very honerable to finish harvest fir them in thst situation.

 

[Gav]

Difficult position with it being your partners parents but unfortunately if they continue to ignore your requests to pay go down the legal route with them to get the money.

 

[Formatted]

Are you contracted or employed? If you are employed ACAS can advise, with holding wages is a pretty serious offence https://www.acas.org.uk/

 

[snarling bee]

What does your partner say?

 

[farmerm]

Difficult one! I am sure you will get what you are owed one way or the other. I would make it clear you and your partner need the money and if they can not catch up on the late wages you can not afford to continue working with them to the end of harvest. You are making a gesture of goodwill to continue to end of harvest and you would appreciate if they could mirror that with paying what you are owed. With family taking legal routes need to be the very last option Good luck.

 

[Pan mixer]

I think that your partner is key in this. Her or his long term relationship with parents is quite likely to be adversly affected if it goes wrong.

 

[Kidds]

I have agreed the i will finish harvest for them

You should add that it is on condition they pay now.
This is the strongest position you are ever going to be in so use it.

 

[Bald n Grumpy]

Is it the relationship with the partner or the parents that's become unworkable?

 

[Danllan]

Is it the relationship with the partner or the parents that's become unworkable?

That was what I was going to ask.

 

[Oliveau]

Possibly a bit more than meets the eye here, so I wouldn't wish to offer a comment at this stage.
So more info about which relationship has broken down, and what agreement / arrangement was previously in place to pay you for your labour? Were you / are you working full time on the farm?

 

[Gav]

I know all parties involved in this personally and the situation is exactly as the OP has stated. He is being careful how much information he posts on here so as not to identify those involved.

 

[BRB John]

So the unworkable relationship is with the partner then???

I know all parties involved in this personally and the situation is exactly as the OP has stated. He is being careful how much information he posts on here so as not to identify those involved.

 

[Gav]

It’s not my place to give more details. The OP is reading all the comments but is busy combining still.

 

[Bald n Grumpy]

I know all parties involved in this personally and the situation is exactly as the OP has stated. He is being careful how much information he posts on here so as not to identify those involved.

Has he fell out with the partner or the family? Big difference in advice needed depending on the answer IMO. If he's fell out with both he's on a hiding to nothing and should let them do their own harvest

 

[BRB John]

Regardless of relationship status if your not getting paid for god sake stop your not a charity.

 

[ollie989898]

I'd be stopping work until every penny was paid.

 

[betweenthelines]

Too many questions


Was/is the OP an employee? Did he fall out with his employer or with his partner? Or both? Is his partner a partner in the employer's business? Are there unresolved issues (financial or otherwise) from his fallout with his partner?

 

[Gerbert]

Regardless of relationship status if your not getting paid for god sake stop your not a charity.

Yes if a regular employee. With it being the inlaws you are not winning if you stop working there. Long term you might be winning more if you keep working for free for a little while.