Can they refuse payment if I leave 4 days earlier from crappy job?

[Mafi419]

I'm not sure if you can help me, but here it goes: I have two jobs right now, one of them being a part-time at a retail store (I'm in the UK right now). I'm going back to my country at the end of July, so I decided to give my notice on my part-time job. I only needed to give them 1 week, but because I know they are understaffed I gave them 2 weeks. I'm quickly regretting it. Some of the staff there has been treating me really bad, and my supervisor became best friends with a 16 year old (bratty) girl that right now hates my guts because (and get this!) I'm pregnant and she's not (I'm 28...). Last week my supervisor actually shouted in front of all my colleagues about something she felt I should have done and I haven't. Today I wasn't feeling so well, my back really hurt, I was feeling extremely tired and and I have an extremely sore throat, so I called HR and told them I wasn't going. They were extremely insensitive, and ended the call with "well, we can't make you come to work, so we can't do anything". I'm really upset about this because I was considered enough to give them 2 weeks and now everyone is treating me like crap. So I decided I don't want to go back anymore. I don't care if they don't pay me for these days, but my question is: if I call back tomorrow and tell them I'm going to stay home sick until the end of the week, can they refuse to pay my holiday entitlements? Can they like "make me" pay them back for these 4 days? Thank you for your time and attention

 

[tommyg]

If you are "sick" they might want a doctor's note or they may say you've broken your contact and get funny over money etc.

Personally for the sake of not burning bridges and being able to get a decent reference from them I would work the 4 days and leave with your head up.

 

[Mafi419]

I know what you mean, but this job is getting to me to the point that 3 days seem an eternity right now. And this was just a part-time job while I was finishing my MA, I already have another job in my field and I doubt I will ever come back to live here or to work in a retail story (hopefully! unless everything goes wrong!), so I won't need references. The book of conduct says that I don't need to give them a medical certificate if I'm sick no longer than 7 days, and this is an extremely well-known clothes store. Would that still be the case, you think?

 

[zorak]

You don't have to go in and legally they cannot with hold any money owed to you.

 

[Abz1982]

they also cannot give a bad reference, its an offence to. You are only allowed to say X worked here from X date to X date.

Unless its a character reference.