Question about "pro-rata" and also about contracts

debzinkent

I gave in my notice to my company but rather than lose me they have offered me a new part-time contract.

The new contract states that I will be working 16 hours a week and my salary will be £9500 "pro-rata". Surely, the salary quoted should be what I would earn full time, lets say £22500?

By saying I'm earning £9500 pro rata doesn't this mean that I'm acutally earling £9500 a year if I were working full-time so therefore I'll only be getting the hourly proportion of this?

Secondly, I have been working for the company for three years but the new contract is treating me as if I'm a completely new employee, should it just be an amended contract?

Oldernotwiser

debzinkent wrote: »

The new contract states that I will be working 16 hours a week and my salary will be £9500 "pro-rata". Surely, the salary quoted should be what I would earn full time, lets say £22500?

By saying I'm earning £9500 pro rata doesn't this mean that I'm acutally earling £9500 a year if I were working full-time so therefore I'll only be getting the hourly proportion of this?

That would be the way that I would read it as well. Do you think your HR people know what they're doing?

getmore4less

Get them to clarify the actual salary it could just be a simple error

If you don't have a break in service the continutity of employent stands but a good idea to get it in writing to avoid future arguments in a few years time.

Make sure you use all your acrrued holiday so they don't try to use the new rates.

Get you new holiday allowances clarified and make sure they add that holidays acrrue on overtime upto a full time equivilent.

ladybirdintheuk

When I went from full to part time my contract just stated my new actual salary (ie the 9500 for you) without saying pro-rata after it. you are right it should either say your full time salary with pro rata, or your new actual salary. Also if you are going from a full time to a part time contract then your "continuous employment" would continue. I'm not sure how you would stand with any contractual benefits, but with statutory things you would class as having worked there for those 3 years.

Sambucus_Nigra

Hopefully they mean 'pro rata-ed'.

debzinkent

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

That would be the way that I would read it as well. Do you think your HR people know what they're doing?

Actually, no they don't know, which is why I was worried!!

ladybirdintheuk

debzinkent wrote: »

Actually, no they don't know, which is why I was worried!!

Why does that sound familiar :rotfl:. My HR team allocated me almost twice the holiday I was entitled to this year. Of course my boss is much smarter than HR otherwise I would have kept quiet, but as it is, I felt I should own up

Mudd14

Normally HR can only deal with the information they have been given so if that is poor then what they will pass on is poor! Although some quality control would be useful.

Edinburgh65

Unless you are very young, based on a 35 hour working week, a salary of £9,500 would be below the legal minimum wage (it would work out at approx £5.22 an hour), so it does look like a mistake, and one which your HR people should have spotted, even if it was spoon-fed to them.