Issues at work re salary

gettingtheresometime

Rubik wrote: »

Pollycat, the only employment board I could find was one that very old posts on it and is part of the old CAB forums. Perhaps I'm not looking in the right place.

If you click on the drop down box that lists the different boards, scroll up from this one & its headed Employment, jobseeking & training.

I agree that you've been treated badly but I think the fact that the agreement was only given to you verbally should have raised alarm bells - that combined with you struggling to fill your days should have indicated that you needed a back up plan.

That said you are where you are. Where you go from now is up to you.

Personally I'd be brushing off that cv and applying for jobs whilst mentally writing off the money (incidentally what figure is your payslips showing you as being paid?)

Rubik

Found the employment board and have posted there.

Many thanks to everyone who took the time to read/reply.

chesky

Contact the ACAS helpline - can't remember the phone number off the top of my head but you can google their website where it's shown. They give very good advice on tricky employment situations.

You don't have too many employment rights as you've been employed with this company less than two years. But at least ACAS will explain to you your legal rights.

Rubik

chesky wrote: »

Contact the ACAS helpline - can't remember the phone number off the top of my head but you can google their website where it's shown. They give very good advice on tricky employment situations.

You don't have too many employment rights as you've been employed with this company less than two years. But at least ACAS will explain to you your legal rights.

Thank you, I will do just that.

Pollycat

Rubik wrote: »

Found the employment board and have posted there.

Many thanks to everyone who took the time to read/reply.

Good.
I hope you get relevant advice (that's not to say you've not had good advice here. )
I'll subscribe to your other thread and see how it goes.
Good luck.

Undervalued

Just replied on the employment board....

Takeaway_Addict

chesky wrote: »

Contact the ACAS helpline - can't remember the phone number off the top of my head but you can google their website where it's shown. They give very good advice on tricky employment situations.

You don't have too many employment rights as you've been employed with this company less than two years. But at least ACAS will explain to you your legal rights.

Their reputation is actually not that well respected.

chesky

Takeaway_Addict wrote: »

Their reputation is actually not that well respected.

And many, many people have found their advice very helpful.

NeilCr

Takeaway_Addict wrote: »

Their reputation is actually not that well respected.

By whom and for what reason?

I have seen this said quite a bit here and am really interested why. I've seen a few clients who have been advised by ACAS and it's been fine. In all honesty quite a bit better than a lot of the advice on the employment board here, for example. There are a few really knowledgable posters but very hard for anybody new to sort the wheat from the chaff

Comms69

Rubik wrote: »

Hello

I would welcome any advice on my situation

I started a new job in February last year for a company which is an incubator company sitting within the parent company.

The business hasn't generated the forecasted income and business the directors and investors thought it would and the incubator company is now on the verge of collapse


In February this year I was presented with either taking a temporary £10k per year paycut (with the outstanding pay to be paid back to me once the business was generating income) or unemployment. I took the paycut. The business is still not generating much income, and I am not able to do the role I was employed to do simply because there isn't the work coming in. Instead I spend my working days trying to find things to do (write blogs, social media marketing, SEO tweeks etc) just to try to fill my days. I am bored beyond belief.

Yesterday I was called into a one to one meeting with the director and was told that my temporary paycut was now permanent and that he wasn't prepared to be legally liable for any further debt from that day onwards. He set out what debts the company has (other then the debt owed to me,. The other debts are down to the directors decisions alone). He also told me that if I requested the debt owed to me it would bankrupt the company. I'm very angry he has placed that on my shoulders and cut my contracted salary without discussion or prior notice. My job remains far from secure and I am concerned that one day I will be told that I'm out of a job with no notice period and no chance of ever seeing my back pay. I also feel that he is engineering a constructive dismissal. - Heya, it sounds like you've been there less than two years. Which in effect means you have no real rights.

The total back pay owed is £8,333 (before tax and NI). I would happily take £5k in cash on Monday and leave that day. - To be honest, it sounds like they simply don't have £5k. But do start looking elsewhere, because they could terminate your contract in next two months with no reason

Any thoughts would be welcome.

Thank you.

Sorry, not the news you would have wanted.