Hi, I work in McDonalds and a colleague of mine had £20 of his wages docked. He is a cashier and when his till was being counted at the end of his shift, the manager found an old £20 and told him that we don't accept them, so it would come out of his wages. Nobody had told him this in the month or two he'd been there, he's only 17 and fresh out of school, so they can't reasonably have expected him to be savvy with these things (I didn't know they weren't accepted either). Another thing that bothers me is that they took his wage, but also kept the £20 that they "didn't accept". Surely if it was worth nothing they would let him have it? And if they kept it, were they not implicitly "accepting"? This does not seem right to me, so I wanted to know if anyone knew the employees rights in this case. I am suspicious because McDonalds employees are always waging an ongoing battle to get their pay. Most of our managers will always find any excuse to dock us, and even fabricate them completely to the naive younger employees who don't know their rights (I have seen them intimidate/pressure the younger employees into signing away their wages with absolutely no evidence e.g. "Oh, your till was actually down £10 yesterday, sign pls"). I've even seen this particular employee lose over £50 in a week because of his till being down. Considering that the managers count the tills, without explaining how they arrive at their conclusions, I don't think anyone can be so bad as to lose £30 from a till in one shift. Sorry, I realise I'm digressing - just to reiterate, my question is, can they dock his wages for accepting an old note, whilst keeping that old note (I have no idea if there is any bank that would exchange them?), and having never told him that they didn't accept it? Thanks