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SF payroll firm Rippling has to delay payouts after Silicon Valley Bank collapse

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Re: SF payroll firm Rippling has to delay payouts after Silicon Valley Bank collapse

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The article headline is clickbait. They're immediately doing payouts through JP Morgan Chase now; the only delay is because some payouts were in flight when they got stuck in SVB, so if a payout was started via SVB a few days ago and was going to arrive today (because bank transactions aren't instantaneous), the new payouts will take a few days to arrive via JP Morgan Chase.

So it’s literally not clickbait and payments were delayed…

Re: SF payroll firm Rippling has to delay payouts after Silicon Valley Bank collapse

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Off to the Department of Labour, they won't look kindly on late paychecks.

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Can you please explain why you normalize deviance and shoddiness? We have an issue here - business runs on trust, and crooks and sloppiness reduce the will to engage in commerce.

Re: SF payroll firm Rippling has to delay payouts after Silicon Valley Bank collapse

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Do businesses not do any risk assessments to prevent things like this from happening? Especially a business that is providing a critical service to businesses. Why are they using a regional bank to handle this?

"a regional bank", only 18th biggest in the US.

Re: SF payroll firm Rippling has to delay payouts after Silicon Valley Bank collapse

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post #41
post #32

The article headline is clickbait. They're immediately doing payouts through JP Morgan Chase now; the only delay is because some payouts were in flight when they got stuck in SVB, so if a payout was started via SVB a few days ago and was going to arrive today (because bank transactions aren't instantaneous), the new payouts will take a few days to arrive via JP Morgan Chase.

So it’s literally not clickbait and payments were delayed…

The "clickbait" part, is it makes it sound as if Rippling is fiscally unsound, and has to scramble to find capital.

A non-clickbait would say what gp said.

Re: SF payroll firm Rippling has to delay payouts after Silicon Valley Bank collapse

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Off to the Department of Labour, they won't look kindly on late paychecks.

For those unaware, dept of labor takes late paychecks seriously and will help you as a worker. Late paychecks and other forms of wage theft make up the single largest category of theft. Too bad more people are riled up over small time crimes like shoplifting leaving many in the dark about what they can do about their employers stealing from them.

Very true, but this seems like a surprise logistical payment obstacle for most employers and not anything deserving the label of theft. I suspect most departments of labor would see it that way as well, not penalizing employers who were otherwise able and willing to make payroll even if they might indeed help the affected workers.

Re: SF payroll firm Rippling has to delay payouts after Silicon Valley Bank collapse

#46

Do businesses not do any risk assessments to prevent things like this from happening? Especially a business that is providing a critical service to businesses. Why are they using a regional bank to handle this?

Considering the value of SVB stock until yesterday, no reasonable risk assessment would have found anything actionable until yesterday.

Payroll being delayed a few days is indeed annoying, but it's not the end of the world.

Re: SF payroll firm Rippling has to delay payouts after Silicon Valley Bank collapse

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Can you please explain why you normalize deviance and shoddiness? We have an issue here - business runs on trust, and crooks and sloppiness reduce the will to engage in commerce.

I think people are reacting to your suggestion that employees should report their employers for a circumstance that was entirely, 100% out of the hands of the employer.

To be clear, this isn’t about employers using SVB. This is because Rippling, a payroll vendor, uses SVB to transact payroll on behalf of customers.

This was entirely out of the control of the employer, most of which are scrambling along with Rippling to make employees whole ASAP.

Re: SF payroll firm Rippling has to delay payouts after Silicon Valley Bank collapse

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post #44
post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So it’s literally not clickbait and payments were delayed…

The "clickbait" part, is it makes it sound as if Rippling is fiscally unsound, and has to scramble to find capital. A non-clickbait would say what gp said.

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Re: SF payroll firm Rippling has to delay payouts after Silicon Valley Bank collapse

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This article is slightly click-baity. The payments are delayed in some cases, not held out altogether. From what I'm hearing so far, Rippling has changed banks over night and has instructed all clients to update the ACH filters accordingly. Only payroll cycles caught in-between will be affected, but even then they are delayed, but not held.

> The payments are delayed in some cases, not held out altogether That would still be a disaster for me. But I guess that says more about me and my lack of financial stability, than it says about anyone else..

I've often been in the same situation.

None of us should be. Not just to protect ourselves from weird situations from this.

Financial freedom is power in so many ways. (and peace of mind)

Re: SF payroll firm Rippling has to delay payouts after Silicon Valley Bank collapse

#50

This article is slightly click-baity. The payments are delayed in some cases, not held out altogether. From what I'm hearing so far, Rippling has changed banks over night and has instructed all clients to update the ACH filters accordingly. Only payroll cycles caught in-between will be affected, but even then they are delayed, but not held.

We just received this from Rippling: Hi Rippling Customer, Yesterday afternoon, Rippling learned that Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) had solvency challenges. We have been working with SVB to ensure timely payments to our customers’ employees. However, this morning we learned that the FDIC had stepped in and taken control of SVB. We are reaching out to you because you have a payroll that has already been processed for 3/15…

We bank with Mercury and I couldn't get a hold of them in business hours after receiving this email at 5:30PM CET on a Friday (unsurprisingly). This email seems odd to me, Mercury shows a transaction posted as of March 9 for employee payments, and another posted as of March 10 for tax payments. Had I was successful in contacting Mercury, would they even be able to reverse them?

Rippling should be working with FDIC to sort out these in-flight payments, not asking their customers this. When I reached their support team for what the additional instructions are, I couldn't get an answer. This situation sure doesn't look great.

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