Probation pay for over 10 years

jopat

Please help if you can.
I have worked for a company for 11 years and only just have realised, talking to a new starter, that I am still on probation wages!
Puzzled me too.... I have never had any complaints about my work and nobody ever discussed extended probation, so I presumed I had finnished in Nov 1999 after 6 months. I have recieved long service vouchers and am a valued member of staff. I have informed payrol and am waiting for an answer. The problem is I am not sure if I am intitled to claim back for all the years they have underpaid me.
Jo

iamana1ias

jopat wrote: »

Please help if you can.
I have worked for a company for 11 years and only just have realised, talking to a new starter, that I am still on probation wages!
Puzzled me too.... I have never had any complaints about my work and nobody ever discussed extended probation, so I presumed I had finnished in Nov 1999 after 6 months. I have recieved long service vouchers and am a valued member of staff. I have informed payrol and am waiting for an answer. The problem is I am not sure if I am intitled to claim back for all the years they have underpaid me.
Jo

Unless it's the kind of organisation that has specific pay bands for lengths of service, this is not the right way to get information!

It may be that they've agreed higher wages for the new starter (which could be for any reason).

Have you ever asked for a payrise? Can you demonstrate why you're worth more money?

maninthestreet

So you've had no payrises in the last 10 years??

jopat

It is about 50p an hour more than being on probation wages.
The wage is a set one for all employes.

dzug1

Maybe they haven't underpaid you. Probation pay doesn't have to be any different to normal pay.

Probation is a status rather than a pay rate - it means that they can get rid of you with relatively little fuss should you not be up to scratch

Edit - written before your post 4

jopat

maninthestreet wrote: »

So you've had no payrises in the last 10 years??

Small pay increases which everyone gets.

Googlewhacker

Yes but did your contract specifically say that you were guaranteed to the payrise after probation, if not then you may struggle to get it paid back.

You may be able to argue custom and practice but you would have to be guaranteed that everyone that has come into the company has done probation has had the pay increase.

jopat

dzug1 wrote: »

Maybe they haven't underpaid you. Probation pay doesn't have to be any different to normal pay.

Probation is a status rather than a pay rate - it means that they can get rid of you with relatively little fuss should you not be up to scratch

Edit - written before your post 4

I am a relief member of staff, with always a lot of demand. If they didn't like my work they are under no obligation to give me any shifts. Like I said before I have never had any complaints about my work and am a valued member of the workplace..

iamana1ias

jopat wrote: »

I am a relief member of staff, with always a lot of demand. If they didn't like my work they are under no obligation to give me any shifts. Like I said before I have never had any complaints about my work and am a valued member of the workplace..

Except that the value is about 50p an hour less than others.

Googlewhacker

Also since the post above you say you are a relief member which may not be seen as a full time member of staff which then means custom practise may not apply unless there are other members of relief staff that have done probation and then got the increased wages (this would have to be several and not just one or two)

jopat

iamana1ias wrote: »

Except that the value is about 50p an hour less than others.

It is a mistake and nobody at work including payrol, can understand why it wasn't amended on the system.
Let me just say it is a huge company with hundreds of thousands of employees all over the country.
I just didn't know if mistakes of this length of time could be refunded in full or up to so many years?