27-05-2006, 08:51 AM
I am not sure of a bounced cheque status in UK. In SA a bounced cheque is not worth the paper it is written on, although you may redeposit it numerous times (inconvenience and costs each time for the person whose cheque keeps bouncing). Long hard battle to get your money out of said person/company (even if you do go the legal route).
In Germany though once a cheque has bounced, it CANNOT be re-deposited as it is a cancelled document. But that bounced cheque now allows you the rights to lay charges of fraud against the said person/company who issued it (a crime in other words), and therefore a bounced cheque here can have serious consequences.
LetÂ’s hope somebody can clear up how one is protected or not in the UK.
Then immaterial of how ones wages are paid. If they are NOT paid, does one not have legal access through your local employment/labour agency? (as in Germany you would be fully protected and represented by them "Arbeitsampt").
Good Luck and as The Duck says, first deposite the cheque and see what happens. :luck:
In Germany though once a cheque has bounced, it CANNOT be re-deposited as it is a cancelled document. But that bounced cheque now allows you the rights to lay charges of fraud against the said person/company who issued it (a crime in other words), and therefore a bounced cheque here can have serious consequences.
LetÂ’s hope somebody can clear up how one is protected or not in the UK.
Then immaterial of how ones wages are paid. If they are NOT paid, does one not have legal access through your local employment/labour agency? (as in Germany you would be fully protected and represented by them "Arbeitsampt").
Good Luck and as The Duck says, first deposite the cheque and see what happens. :luck:
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