Payroll | Betfred employees underpaid for overtime

A whistleblower told The Guardian that Betfred has underpaid staff for overtime work. The source alleged that the bookmaker, which employs more than 7,000 people, didn’t let employees know that they may be owed money even after the payment problem had been identified.

The firm explained that it failed to make automatic payments to staff who were owed extra holiday pay because they had worked overtime and blamed the payment problems on its payroll systems. Instead, it was reported that holiday pay was calculated based on their contracted hours, which for some employees worked out as far fewer hours than they had actually worked - Share Cast reported.

The Whistleblower added: “I don’t know one person in there who doesn’t do overtime. Everyone does it because they don’t have enough staff.

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“It’s disgusting that as workers on 10p or 20p more than the minimum wage, we’ve put off taking holidays or are forced to work extra hours before a holiday to make up for the shortfall of wages that shouldn’t even be happening,” the source added.