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Employment Rights Act 1996

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20 Limits on method and timing of payments.

(1) Where the employer of a worker in retail employment receives from the worker a payment on account of a cash shortage or stock deficiency, the employer shall not be treated as receiving the payment in accordance with section 15 unless (in addition to the requirements of that section being satisfied with respect to the payment) he has previously— (a) notified the worker in writing of the worker’s total liability to him in respect of that shortage or deficiency, and (b) required the worker to make the payment by means of a demand for payment made in accordance with the following provisions of this section. (2) A demand for payment made by the employer of a worker in retail employment in respect of a cash shortage or stock deficiency— (a) shall be made in writing, and (b) shall be made on one of the worker’s pay days. (3) A demand for payment in respect of a particular cash shortage or stock deficiency, or (in the case of a series of such demands) the first such demand, shall not be made— (a) earlier than the first pay day of the worker following the date when he is notified of his total liability in respect of the shortage or deficiency in pursuance of subsection (1)(a) or, where he is so notified on a pay day, earlier than that day, or (b) later than the end of the period of twelve months beginning with the date when the employer established the existence of the shortage or deficiency or (if earlier) the date when he ought reasonably to have done so. (4) For the purposes of this Part a demand for payment shall be treated as made by the employer on one of a worker’s pay days if it is given to the worker or posted to, or left at, his last known address— (a) on that pay day, or (b) in the case of a pay day which is not a working day of the employer’s business, on the first such working day following that pay day. (5) Legal proceedings by the employer of a worker in retail employment for the recovery from the worker of an amount in respect of a cash shortage or stock deficiency shall not be instituted by the employer after the end of the period referred to in subsection (3)(b) unless the employer has within that period made a demand for payment in respect of that amount in accordance with this section.

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20 Limits on method and timing of payments.

(1) Where the employer of a worker in retail employment receives from the worker a payment on account of a cash shortage or stock deficiency, the employer shall not be treated as receiving the payment in accordance with section 15 unless (in addition to the requirements of that section being satisfied with respect to the payment) he has previously— (a) notified the worker in writing of the worker’s total liability to him in respect of that shortage or deficiency, and (b) required the worker to make the payment by means of a demand for payment made in accordance with the following provisions of this section. (2) A demand for payment made by the employer of a worker in retail employment in respect of a cash shortage or stock deficiency— (a) shall be made in writing, and (b) shall be made on one of the worker’s pay days. (3) A demand for payment in respect of a particular cash shortage or stock deficiency, or (in the case of a series of such demands) the first such demand, shall not be made— (a) earlier than the first pay day of the worker following the date when he is notified of his total liability in respect of the shortage or deficiency in pursuance of subsection (1)(a) or, where he is so notified on a pay day, earlier than that day, or (b) later than the end of the period of twelve months beginning with the date when the employer established the existence of the shortage or deficiency or (if earlier) the date when he ought reasonably to have done so. (4) For the purposes of this Part a demand for payment shall be treated as made by the employer on one of a worker’s pay days if it is given to the worker or posted to, or left at, his last known address— (a) on that pay day, or (b) in the case of a pay day which is not a working day of the employer’s business, on the first such working day following that pay day. (5) Legal proceedings by the employer of a worker in retail employment for the recovery from the worker of an amount in respect of a cash shortage or stock deficiency shall not be instituted by the employer after the end of the period referred to in subsection (3)(b) unless the employer has within that period made a demand for payment in respect of that amount in accordance with this section.

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