When you have a contract of employment if in a month you dont complete those hours because they havent gave you them can they deduct wages from you?
A contract is between two or more parties. An employer generally has two options when hiring someone for a position within the business/ organisation. The first option is to form a written statement of particulars. The other is a contract of employment.
I'm going to construct my answer from the theory that you have a contract of employment as a written statement of particulars is not as common. However both are generally the same.
An employment contract is when the organisation which want to employ you provide you with a set of conditions in which you must work. Within a contract they must provide pay details, annual leave (Both paid -holiday pay- and unpaid - When there is a need to leave the organisation for some time), other types of pay like sick pay (Including maternity and paternity, overtime etc), they also need to provide the hours you are contracted to complete/work. This amount of hours can be in a month, week and even day. The contract should also mention what days the new employee is needed to work.
If you sign this contract then it becomes a legal agreement between you and the organisation. If any of the conditions in the contract are broken or not followed then it is possible to take legal action.
This does mean that a organisation are not aloud to deduct money from your wages just because they didn't want you to work the contracted hours. You need to be careful though because a company can argue that they offered you the chance to go home instead of ordering you to go home.
Organisations can also deduct wages when you do not turn up for work. Even if you are entitled to sick pay there is still a chance that a deduction could occur.
I hope this answers your question. If I knew under what grounds you didn't complete the contracted hours then I could be of more use.
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