Linz (OTS) – An employee who worked for a company in the south of Linz had not been paid a salary for four months. His complaint to the boss was unsuccessful, so he justifiably left his employment early this March. The company then transferred him almost 16,000 euros net – without a payslip. Since that was far from all the employer owed him, he turned to the AK Upper Austria.
The man had been employed by the company as an automation technician for around twelve years. For four months he put up with his boss not paying him any salary, then his collar exploded. He asked the employer to pay him the outstanding salary and gave him a deadline of almost two weeks. If this expires, he will justifiably withdraw from the employment contract early, said the AK member.
After the deadline had passed, the employee did what he had announced: he left early, justifiably so. A week later, he received a net payment of almost 16,000 euros from his former employer. It was unclear to the technician how this amount was made up, also because he did not receive a payslip.
He turned to the Chamber of Labor and had his claims recalculated. In addition to the outstanding salary payments, allowances, daily allowances, dirt and assembly allowances, overtime, vacation compensation and special payments were also outstanding. In addition, there was a claim for damages in the form of compensation for dismissal up to the next possible termination date by the employer – because the employee had legitimately left the employment relationship due to withheld wage claims.
The AK demanded the entire outstanding claims, less the net payment already received, from the company. She didn’t want to get involved in a lawsuit and paid everything back: a total of almost 48,000 euros gross.
„Companies often try not to pay their employees. Probably also because the worst thing that can happen to them is the additional payment of outstanding claims
“, says AK President Andreas Stangl. This is disrespectful and irresponsible, says Stangl, because it puts employees in existential difficulties. “To ensure that our members get their rights as easily as possible, the AK deliberately focuses on providing services close to home. This gives members the opportunity to get advice and help directly in their region at one of the 14 district offices and the headquarters in Linz
“, says Andreas Stangl.
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