Is my pay cut legal?

Wiltshire_Mum

Hi,

I've been working in the local convenience store for several years as a supervisor. The manager is now about to go off on maternity leave and another member of staff is taking her place as manager. Her usual hours are 7am until 2pm but she wants to work 11am until 6pm on alternate Mondays (so she can have a lie-in). This means that she'll be working with me from 2 until 6 so, as she's a manager, they have told me that for those hours I will now be earning only assistants wages and not supervisors! :mad: Does anyone know if they can do this to me? I can see no mention of it in my contract and all I can do is phone their helpline to see what they say though I've a feeling they'll be on the management's side as they're the same company.

Hope you can help!

Primrose

I've never come across this one before. You have a contract with the company to work x hours per week at a rate of £x per hour and if you are not effectively being demoted to a lower level job because of poor performance or because the company is asking all employees to take a wage cut as an alternative to redundancy I don't see that they can legally ask you effectively to do two jobs at two different pay rates simply to accommodate the personal needs of another employee. You may be able to get some advice through the ACAS website or through your Citizen Advice Bureau. In the meantime I suggest you write them a letter saying you wish to raise this as a formal grievance (I assume they have a written Grievance policy which is either in a staff handbook or in your Terms and Conditions of Employment?) and that you will be taking legal advice.

Richard_Cocks

This sounds wrong to me, get down to your local CAB as they'll know for sure.