Did you sign any sort of contract before you started? Your salary, if you have one, should be mentioned in there.

My contract lists all the salary categories the company offers, but none in particular are highlighted. It says on the job advertisement (and confirmed verbally) which salary category I fit into, but doesn't indicate it on the contract.

Do you have a supervisor you could talk with?

"company I work for has roughly 50% volunteers" uhm what?

@mutt Yeah, I'll send an email to my boss about it

@dsfgsho Yeah, I have no idea why the volunteers sign up. i didn't know about all the volunteers when I applied. They are mostly students still in university so I guess they are looking for workplace experience or something?

This isn't an "I'll email and wait" situation. You need to call your boss and HR and then follow up with an email restating the conversation(s) and tell them the timeframe you're expecting for response/resolution.

@dsfgsho I guess they just don't tell them which 50% !

Interns may be a more useful term than volunteers. Although not all interns are unpaid, at least the word implies that they're doing it for the experience.

So you have no idea what you have signed?

How could you possibly have entered into this situation? How have you been working for 2 months without pay, accepting 3 week delays to your queries? This is ludicrous. Phone up, or physically talk to, your manager, immediately. I mean now. Not this afternoon, or tomorrow, or next week. Now. If you don't actually have a signed agreement with what your job entails, this entire employment is probably illegal in the UK. You could be "working" for some real cowboys.

@ChrisH in the US unpaid interns aren't legally allowed to produce anything of value; they're only supposed to be able to get general job training. While there's always been an element of that law only being honored in the breach, under the previous administration the labor dept had stepped up enforcement a lot. I don't think the Trump Whitehouse has made any specific statements on the issue yet.

@DanNeely this has a UK tag though. Here there have been some attempts to address the issue but nothing conclusive.

The quote here doesn't say that your job is unpaid, it says that your project is unpaid. You haven't provided much context, but I don't interpret that to mean "we're not going to pay you money", I interpret it to mean "you're working on a project that we're not billing a client for, so we don't require timesheets because they're only necessary when we're billing a client by the hour for your time and need a paper trail to justify our billing". That said, after working for 2 months unpaid you should still be following up and finding out where your money is.

@ChrisH Missed the tag, I'm mildly surprised nothing's been done there though. I guess I'm used to the US deck being the most heavily stacked in the employers favor on labor law.

@MarkAmery That's a very good spot.

@DanNeely not quite nothing. But the party in power for the last few years is the one most inclined to weaken protections for workers.

@ChrisH Interns in the UK are subject to the minimum-wage rules, though, and would have to be paid something. Volunteers are just that. However, there is no indication in the question of whether the "company" is "a charity, voluntary organisation, associated fund raising body or a statutory body".

@AndrewLeach good point though plenty of companies appear to get round that, while claiming that they're not displacing paid workers

@MarkAmery That's very true, but two months without getting paid? That's downright suspicious in any scenario.

@berry120 Suspicious, maybe, and certainly unprofessional, but not necessarily evil. I've worked for multiple companies that paid me significantly late without any dishonest intent. Some were tiny fledgling startups by folks straight out of uni who were figuring out the basics of running a business as they went along. Others were expanding into new territories and we agreed to delay my first paycheck until they'd figured out the legalities and logistics of paying me in the country I was working in. Yet others were just plain incompetent and dysfunctional, which sounds like the OP's case.

@alroc - And if they don't answer the phone, it's a 'go to their desk and refuse to leave until its sorted' situation.