Legalities of Pay

Drunkstar

Hi,

For obvious reasons I wont be naming any companies here...

I work for a company we shall call X which is a child company of Y. Y manages multiple sites under their own name as well as us. Now the staff of X have mixed contracts, some have contracts that state company X and some Y.

Recently Y have announced, internally, that all their staff are to be paid the living wage across all sites. However the HR have said this will NOT apply to worker of X, despite us doing the same job for the same parent company (indeed our job description has us doing more!).


Legally where do we stand as to the wage increase? Cheers for any advice.

DomRavioli

Ask a solicitor, not a forum board.

Drunkstar

Well I was more hoping for advice from people in the know BEFORE going to spend money. What with this being a money saving board and all. Back when I first joined people would actually try to give help and advice with issue about money, including earning. I didnt realise it had changed.

cr1mson

Given they are paying minimum wage and are not discriminating for legally protected characteristics don't see how this can be against the law.

ohreally

Drunkstar wrote: »

Cheers for any advice.

Get unionised.

agrinnall

You don't stand anywhere, they can pay what they like as long as it's NMW or above. If you don't like it get a job with company Y.

TBagpuss

they are entitled not to make the same offer to the employees of X.

However, if they are seeking accreditation via the Living Wage Foundation then they are supposed to make commitments with regard to contrators as well as regarding direct employees, and I think would have to pay you and others the living wage in order to qualify.

Drunkstar

Yeah that's pretty much what I thought, even though its them that pay me I assumed I'd not be automatically entitled to the higher rate. Always worth asking for opinions smarter than mine.


Oh, also we have started organising getting the staff into unions.


Cheers all.