Does an employer have to provide a payslip?
While paper or electronic payslips are still very common in many workplaces, unless there is an agreement to do so, an employer is under no specific legal obligation to provide a payslip. In the interests of ensuring that everyone understands when and how wages or salaries have been calculated and paid, however, an employee has the right to access or obtain a copy of the employer's wage and time records relating to that employee. This record must be kept by the employer for each of their employees. It would include details such as, but not limited to:
The kind of work the employee does
The amount of hours/days that the employee works
The wages paid to the employee each week and the method of calculating those wages
The nature of the employment agreement
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Date Modified: Thursday, March 31, 2011
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