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5% Pay cut

mariemcg · 2009-03-27 09:58:10

We have just had phase 2 of redundancies, have "lost" our overtime pay which we got for covering evenings/weekends (worth at least £3k a year) and have to take time off instead. Today we have been informed via email that there will be pay cuts: "This will include a goal of temporarily reducing the pay of our senior…

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ginandtonic1988 Posts: 259 Forumite

13 April 2009 at 1:58PM

This will be my second year on a pay freeze, the company I work for moved so I've had to pay extra petrol and car costs so this is effectively a 10% pay cut and my husband was made redundant and took a $10K a year pay cut in his next job and now he has had just had another 5% pay cut. Were chuffed to ribbons not :mad:

I keep tightening our belts but the bills and food prices just keep going up.

Its grim all round I'm afraid and its not going to get better too soon either.

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