refused a company pay rise

jumpinJack

I hope some of you maybe be able to advise me, my employer has just been brought out by another firm, as part of there takeover they have offered all eligible employees a wage rise. I have been denied this rise, as im currently on a disaplinary. Is this legal ?.
I was put on a disaplinary after a problem at work, basically i was employed as a team leader, and was the key holder for the buissnes premises. One day i was late for work by 10 minutes due to emergency roadworks on my route to work, i should have phoned in to my employer to advise them that i would be late for work, but due to the fact that i was under a lot of pressure to get to work, i completely forgot to do this, as a result i was dissaplined for gross misconduct, theft, (i forgot to amend my timesheet) and falseifacation of company records (daily log and diary). I know that i was in the wrong for not doing the above mention items, and at my hearing i addmitted all these things of my own volition. I was put on a 1 year final warning disaplinary, i have worked for this company for 3 years with a clean record, and have not been in any trouble with this company. I was demoteted from my job and had to take a pay cut. I now feel that im being punished again by being denined the pay rise that everyone else got, your thoughts and comments would be most welcome

AP007

A company can give a pay increase to whom ever they like leaving out one or more than one person for whatever reason.

Annisele

Employers can't discriminate based on protected characteristics (age, sex etc).

They can discriminate based on pretty much anything else - and discrimination in favour of those who haven't had final warnings doesn't sound inherently unfair.

But then I'm not a lawyer - hopefully somebody else will have better news for you.

ironlady2022

Agree with above but sounds a bit harsh to say you had a clean record prior to incident. Have you got a formal disciplinary procedure? Should you not have got a verbal warning first?

heretolearn_2

I'm afraid that yes, they can do this.

On the post above, no there is no need to go through the whole list of verbal, written, final written warnings - employers can jump to whichever is appropriate. the issue here was probably not being 10 minutes late, it was falsifying records to hide the fact. In some places it would have resulted in dismissal for gross misconduct, so no, the employers were not really being all that harsh.

maninthestreet

I surprised you were not sacked if the disciplinary hearing up-held an accusation of gross misconduct.