Anyone here work at b&q? - payslip question

[Rockatansky]

My wife has a part time job at b&q.

Apparently they've told her the only way she can access payslips is in store on some intranet site.
For one, this just doesn't ring true to me and for two, that's not so easy when you're hardly there and almost always outside on your shift.

The hours she works means there's challenges trying to speak to the right person but she's going to try and keep questioning things, I just wondered if by the power of pistonheads there was anyone here with first hand experience?

[TommoAE86]

A friend works for them and he's said it's true that it's all through this HR system now, seems to be HR trying to be more modern while being more annoying for staff, she can also add in holiday & update personal details through this system too.

[Red9zero]

Not B&Q I'm afraid, but our payslips are online on our company intranet, although there is still an option for hard copies to be posted to your home address. May be worth asking HR / Payroll.

[Rockatansky]

Thanks very much for the reply Tommo, I guess it may be as described then.

It just seems nuts to me that she has no easy access to payslips and that her only way to view them is on a computer in a public area of the store.
I don't understand why that system can't be accesssed from home, or even why they can't just email a payslip!

It's a very part time and very temporary thing, so she's unlikely to go to war over it, but it just sounds daft.

[Monkeylegend]

You would think they would have a much easier DIY system for staff.

[Red9zero]

Monkeylegend said:

You would think they would have a much easier DIY system for staff.

Oh dear

[Rockatansky]

Monkeylegend said:

You would think they would have a much easier DIY system for staff.

[Radec]

We use Workday in our office and it's the same, although it also has it's own mobile app so we can use that to get payslips at anytime through the app.

I'm not sure what system the use at B&Q though, but could be the same.

[pb8g09]

They can provide a hard copy to your personal email address if you specifically request one from HR. Otherwise, as you say it's via the intranet portal.

Not ideal, but like many of the admin/HR elements of a retail business they're set up with only head office staff in mind and not out in the stores.

[Rockatansky]

Yeah, my place uses xero but has used other things in the past. They've all either had an accessible web portal or an app that you can use for payslips / holidays etc.

[Rockatansky]

pb8g09 said:

They can provide a hard copy to your personal email address if you specifically request one from HR. Otherwise, as you say it's via the intranet portal.

Not ideal, but like many of the admin/HR elements of a retail business they're set up with only head office staff in mind and not out in the stores.

Interesting, thanks.

This sounds like first hand experience, would that be right?

[pb8g09]

Rockatansky said:

Interesting, thanks.

This sounds like first hand experience, would that be right?

I may know someone who knows someone who knows someone that was involved in the implementation of their HR payroll system.

[Rockatansky]

pb8g09 said:

I may know someone who knows someone who knows someone that was involved in the implementation of their HR payroll system.

Haha! That's close enough for me.

Thanks for all the replies, I'll suggest she politely but firmly asks the HR person to get payslips emailed out to her. Of course, as the HR person is also very part time, that won't be as straightforward as it sounds....

Thanks again folks.

[pb8g09]

Rockatansky said:

Haha! That's close enough for me.

Thanks for all the replies, I'll suggest she politely but firmly asks the HR person to get payslips emailed out to her. Of course, as the HR person is also very part time, that won't be as straightforward as it sounds....

Thanks again folks.

I'll see if the person I know who knows a person who knows a person could bring it up in a meeting that person may have in the next 10 days with the Group HR Director....

[Rockatansky]

pb8g09 said:

I'll see if the person I know who knows a person who knows a person could bring it up in a meeting that person may have in the next 10 days with the Group HR Director....

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why we love this place

[Countdown]

I've been involved in a few Finance/HR systems implementations and "E-payslips" is the norm now. It's because of data security. in the "old days" you'd have payslips sitting in peoples' pigeon holes and risk going astray. One minor irritation was the huge dot matrix impact printers that would churn out thousands of payslips each week/month, they were as noisy as feck. You'd then have some poor sod having to separate them, distribute them to each office or post them out to home addresses. And this all had to be done on or before pay day.

In short e-payslips are so much easier and cheaper for the employer.

[Monkeylegend]

I still remember the days when the payroll van arrived on site and the line foreman handed out the pay packets, full of cash, to about 1200 staff working on the production lines on a Friday morning.

We finished at 14.30 on a Friday and the town pubs were always busy Friday afternoon.

[Countdown]

Just to add that most modern systems can be configured to email the payslip to your work email.

[pb8g09]

Countdown said:

I've been involved in a few Finance/HR systems implementations and "E-payslips" is the norm now. It's because of data security. in the "old days" you'd have payslips sitting in peoples' pigeon holes and risk going astray. One minor irritation was the huge dot matrix impact printers that would churn out thousands of payslips each week/month, they were as noisy as feck. You'd then have some poor sod having to separate them, distribute them to each office or post them out to home addresses. And this all had to be done on or before pay day.

In short e-payslips are so much easier and cheaper for the employer.

Yep I remember being the one who had to peel and stick all those payslips and post them out sameday....

And having to handwrite all the cheques to the suppliers each week, all 200 of them....

[soad]

Countdown said:

I've been involved in a few Finance/HR systems implementations and "E-payslips" is the norm now. It's because of data security. in the "old days" you'd have payslips sitting in peoples' pigeon holes and risk going astray. One minor irritation was the huge dot matrix impact printers that would churn out thousands of payslips each week/month, they were as noisy as feck. You'd then have some poor sod having to separate them, distribute them to each office or post them out to home addresses. And this all had to be done on or before pay day.

In short e-payslips are so much easier and cheaper for the employer.

Not been paid in cash since 1999.