Help with unfairness at work

Flyboy152

CFC wrote: »

Why is your contract changing when it has not done so before? Has your grad. contract made perm or was it extended via a fixed term contract? Have you performed less well than anticipated, if your perm contract will be on less money than a grad/trainee contract? Did you apply for this new role - if so, this is the amount of money they are offering you to undertake it - what will happen if you turn ths new role down and stay in your current role on your current contract?

I would imagine, as there have been promotions, the OP's performance has been reasonabley satisfactory.

zzzLazyDaisy

Shopaholic101 wrote: »

Hi, I'm a long time lurker and short time poster!

I hope you can help...I have a question which I can't find the answer to on our HR pages and wondered if there is a standard answer.

Basically I took a grad role 3 years ago, took a new role after it ended, then took another new one (all promotions) 6 months after that. However, I have stayed on my current (grad) contract and payscale since starting. As a result I am about to get a pay cut when I change contract.

This because at the moment, I get a london 'allowance' on top of my overall pay, then I get a percentage of my actual pay as a profit share.

e.g. £20k basic, £3k allowance, £2k profit share (say 10%), total: £25K
their new plan: £22k basic with london weighting in my pay, total: £24,500.

So my question is; can they do this?

Obviously I'm grateful I have a job, so if they can do this then I will stay quiet, but if not I might question it.

Why will you lose the London Allowance when your role changes? Is it because the new role does not meet the criteria? If so, then yes, they are entitled to do this.

The more pertinent question is why have you had so many promotions and no pay rise? In some organisations, if you don't ask, you don't get. They are under no legal obligation to give you a pay rise when you change roles, but it is the sort of thing that you'd normally enquire about.

Flyboy152

zzzLazyDaisy wrote: »

Why will you lose the London Allowance when your role changes? Is it because the new role does not meet the criteria? If so, then yes, they are entitled to do this.

The more pertinent question is why have you had so many promotions and no pay rise? In some organisations, if you don't ask, you don't get. They are under no legal obligation to give you a pay rise when you change roles, but it is the sort of thing that you'd normally enquire about.

That very much depends on what collective or individual agreements are in place, what the gender of the employee is and how the other gender is treated and if it meets the National Minimum Wage criteria.

zzzLazyDaisy

Flyboy152 wrote: »

That very much depends on what collective or individual agreements are in place, what the gender of the employee is and how the other gender is treated and if it meets the National Minimum Wage criteria.

Yes, you are right, I was trying to keep things simple, since OP has not introduced any of these variables.