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Recruitment referral scheme

Valentina

Hi

We used to have a referral scheme that it was paying a bonus of 3K gross to employees after 4 months of the referral start date.

One employee refereed a candidate who started the 24th July. The employee handed in his notice and left the 17th November.

The bonus should have been paid in December so we din't pay him the bonus.

We received a letter from him yesterday date 15th November making a formal grievance and asking to be paid the bonus, also because this was verbally confirmed by one senior manager.

Can somebody advise please?

Thanks in advance!

Valentina

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  • If the rules of the scheme are that you pay after three months of service, then it was due on 24 October, well before the employee resigned. The fact that you didn't process the payment within that time doesn't seem like a good reason to withhold it, if the employee understood it was going to be paid to them and relied on that commitment. Or am I missing something?
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  • If the rules of the scheme are that you pay after three months of service, then it was due on 24 October, well before the employee resigned. The fact that you didn't process the payment within that time doesn't seem like a good reason to withhold it, if the employee understood it was going to be paid to them and relied on that commitment. Or am I missing something?
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