Can any HR people help? Salary question

northerntwo1

Evening all

I am hoping someone can advise re a situation. My sister has been offered suitable alternative work following a restructure. She has "protected salary". The protection is worked out phased over 3 years as in you have an initial drop then yearly drops until your final salary is the same.

We both understand that but the issue is as follows.

She is currently contracted to a .4 post although has been working .8 for several years. They are using the salary as the starting point. New post is 26 hours a week.

Example. They are using .4 of her current grading as salary (lets call it £15K), The "final salary" is 30 hours pro rata for the new grade - 3 grades lower (lets call it £12K).

Surely they should work it out on the grade and not the salary as this is different per hours worked and so penalising part timers? If they used a 30 hour basis on current salary it would be approx £20K not the £15K, therefore giving her a much higher salary over the initial years.

Any advice as her HR are saying it is salary related not grade related.

Kind Regards in advance.

getmore4less

Is this really a suitable alternative?

It's a .4 job to a job with many more hours on a much lower hourly rate

I would say that is not a suitable alternative.

The other option is to claim the .8 salary as the base line through custom and practice if it has been done for long enough.

they can't have it both ways if they try to say the new hours are similar to the actual worked hours then they need to use them for salary protection.

northerntwo1

Sincere thanks, yes it is suitable alternative (for her anyway due to termtime and flexible working, it is a dream job in many ways). Her income each week (as she now has no childcare) is far greater than prior paying childcare.

It appears it was an error and they have adjusted accordingly.

Kind regards for your assistance.