I Didn’t Get Paid!

Hi Barefoot

Interesting column last week about super not being paid. In my office almost everyone has not been getting super since November last year, and some for 12 months. But, like you said, it shows up on our payslip as being paid. A few people have approached the boss as far back as last year, and as recently as two weeks, and the boss said that there was a ‘glitch’ with MYOB and that the money is in the ‘cloud’.

Mel

Hi Mel,

It doesn’t sound like a glitch ... more like you’re getting stitched.

Times change but the bulldust stays the same: it goes from ‘the cheque’s in the mail’ to ‘the money’s in the cloud’.

Well, after 12 months of not being paid super, it’s about time you made it rain ‒ with your boss’s money!

I’d suggest you go to the ATO website, lodge a complaint, and have them investigate.

Legally, employers have to pay super at least four times a year.If your boss is looking to the clouds to pay your super, it tells me that:

One, the business is struggling. Or two, your boss is a crook.

Neither bode well for getting a gold watch in 20 years’ time.

Time to start looking for another job.

Scott