About a month ago, I applied for a job in a local cafe and ended up doing a 5 and half hour trial shift. My friend who works there said that they'd decided to employ me, as did the woman supervising my shift. I heard nothing for a few weeks until my friend said they were planning to get me in for more training during my sixth form work experience week. Again, I heard nothing. My friend says the owner went on holiday and also that everyone who works there is very disorganised in general and they were supposed to be contacting me, but it's been a month since my intial trial shift and I've literally heard nothing that hasn't come through my friend. I'm debating going into the shop and asking, but I don't know if that would look bad if on the off chance they still want to hire me. Or, it could just move things along. Also, I don't know much about laws around this but 5 and a half hours seems an awful long time not to be paid for - should I enquire about this regardless of whether they hire me?
Thank you v much