Can my employer cut my annual pay AND extend my working hours?

Jsuk

My company is making redundancies and everyone who is left is getting a 10% pay cut and also having our hours extended from 36 to 40 therefore giving more than a 10% paycut . Is this legal? We are all to have separate meetings but would like to know my rights before going in. Thanks

comeandgo

As long as you are being paid above national minimum wage and agree with the changes there is nothing illegal here.

Jsuk

Thanks for the advice

p00hsticks

My (non-expert) understanding is that you do have to agree to the changes, either by signing to say so or tacitly accepting by simply carrying on working.

If you don't agree to the changes, then company could consider it as being equivalent to you handing in your resignation, although you may then possibly have a case for constructive dismissal.

sweetsand

Dear OP
Rarely happens but it does and that is a fact.
As another stated as long as it's at or above the national wage.
They do have to give you a certain amount of notice.
Where I worked years ago, they decided to reduce our car allowance as it was in 3 catoegeris I think a small car, ie below 1000cc and higest like mine over 2000c, I just moved jobs but now days thats easier said than done.
Think about your options and make the best out of that
x

sweetsand

p00hsticks said:

My (non-expert) understanding is that you do have to agree to the changes, either by signing to say so or tacitly accepting by simply carrying on working.

If you don't agree to the changes, then company could consider it as being equivalent to you handing in your resignation, although you may then possibly have a case for constructive dismissal.

Not "constructive dismisaal" at all if it is affecting others in the same type of job as yours.

JamoLew

p00hsticks said:

My (non-expert) understanding is that you do have to agree to the changes, either by signing to say so or tacitly accepting by simply carrying on working.

Sure i read somewhere (but damned if i can find it) that acceptance by default  was no longer enforceable
There was definitely a case somewhere

nicechap

Jsuk said:

My company is making redundancies and everyone who is left is getting a 10% pay cut and also having our hours extended from 36 to 40 therefore giving more than a 10% paycut . Is this legal? We are all to have separate meetings but would like to know my rights before going in. Thanks

Without knowing your industry or other context, I'm afraid in the current climate it sounds legal.  In general terms, if you do nothing and carry on working you may be deemed to have accepted the changes, your union can help write a rejection letter of the new terms but one consequence might then be statutory redundancy.  If they don't and just sack you, you are then faced with taking them to an ET for constructive dismissal which can be a long winded (12 -24 months) and stressful process.

https://www.gov.uk/dismissal/unfair-and-constructive-dismissal

I have no idea why some uninformed posters state things as fact when they do not have a clue what they are commenting on.

Jeremy535897

JamoLew said:

p00hsticks said:

My (non-expert) understanding is that you do have to agree to the changes, either by signing to say so or tacitly accepting by simply carrying on working.

Sure i read somewhere (but damned if i can find it) that acceptance by default  was no longer enforceable
There was definitely a case somewhere

Several. It is not straightforward. See:
https://www.blakemorgan.co.uk/when-can-there-be-a-deemed-acceptance-of-changes-to-terms-and-conditions/