Northern Rail TUPE and over payed wages.
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My son has received a letter from the outgoing franchise operator Abellio, asking for the repayment of just over £2k in over payed wages for a short period in September of this year. As he has never worked for the company, but was offered a temp job back in the summer of 2016 but not taken up, it's clearly a mistake and he has checked his bank statement clearly showing no money received. They want immediate repayment in full via bank transfer or cheque, if they retained his bank details from the original job app process can the remove funds without permission. I would like to know if anyone from Northern trains has received a similar letter or can confirm the TUPE date .
Firstly he was offered a job but turned it down, the Tupe reference is in relation the Northern Rail franchise change from Abellio to Arriva which happened early this year. The 11th of September is stated as the official tranfer date. His bank statement clearly shows no monies transfered.
W124Bob said:
My son has received a letter from the outgoing franchise operator Abellio, asking for the repayment of just over £2k in over payed wages for a short period in September of this year. As he has never worked for the company, but was offered a temp job back in the summer of 2016 but not taken up, it's clearly a mistake and he has checked his bank statement clearly showing no money received. They want immediate repayment in full via bank transfer or cheque, if they retained his bank details from the original job app process can the remove funds without permission. I would like to know if anyone from Northern trains has received a similar letter or can confirm the TUPE date .
Not a snowball's chance in the Sahara.Letter is correctly addressed to my son. He graduated in May and now works in an unconnected industry. The job from Abellio was accepted so they would have his bank details, it was a zero hours contract and several weeks passed before any shift was offered by which time he was back at uni . He phoned to withdraw from their system and was sent a P45 despite never actually doing any shifts, this was just over 12 months ago.
W124Bob said:
Letter is correctly addressed to my son. He graduated in May and now works in an unconnected industry. The job from Abellio was accepted so they would have his bank details, it was a zero hours contract and several weeks passed before any shift was offered by which time he was back at uni . He phoned to withdraw from their system and was sent a P45 despite never actually doing any shifts, this was just over 12 months ago.
So the P45 will have zero values on it, in which case just send a photocopy back to them?W124Bob said:
My son has received a letter from the outgoing franchise operator Abellio, asking for the repayment of just over £2k in over payed wages for a short period in September of this year. As he has never worked for the company, but was offered a temp job back in the summer of 2016 but not taken up, it's clearly a mistake and he has checked his bank statement clearly showing no money received. They want immediate repayment in full via bank transfer or cheque, if they retained his bank details from the original job app process can the remove funds without permission. I would like to know if anyone from Northern trains has received a similar letter or can confirm the TUPE date .
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