Just after some advice on my legal rights with this one and how I can escalate this if required. I worked a lot of OT at the request of management last year, 5+ hours every weekday plus all weekend. For about 3 months this was all paid correctly at OT rates. I continued this for another 3 months, was told to put in my sheets for approval etc. and then they stopped paying saying "we'll pay next month", "it's end of financial year"... all sorts of excuses. I stopped doing OT after that.
I'm still trying to get the money owed to me as it's a significant amount and now getting push back from new management as a lot of the requests and conversations were verbal so it's hard to provide proof it was approved. The fact that all previous OT was paid doesn't seem to count as proof that there was an ongoing OT requirement.
Is there anything I can do to get this money paid to me? Do I have any legal recourse to ask for this money. They have offered TIL instead, but that was not agreed ahead of time and honestly it's so many hours that I literally would never be able to take it all unless I stopped work for 3 months.
I'm still trying to get the money owed to me as it's a significant amount and now getting push back from new management as a lot of the requests and conversations were verbal so it's hard to provide proof it was approved. The fact that all previous OT was paid doesn't seem to count as proof that there was an ongoing OT requirement.
Is there anything I can do to get this money paid to me? Do I have any legal recourse to ask for this money. They have offered TIL instead, but that was not agreed ahead of time and honestly it's so many hours that I literally would never be able to take it all unless I stopped work for 3 months.