Cost of Living awards, being left out.

Marcon

Hilary41 said:

elsien said:

Hilary41 said:

Hi, I’m looking for advice on the awarding of Cost of Living rises. I understand that COL rises are at the discretion of the employer.

I was part of a salary review in 2016 and was deemed to be on a higher salary for the position I hold. The outcome of this was my salary was frozen and I would not be awarded any COL increases until others in my salary band had caught up. There have been five COL increases since. My thoughts are that COL awards are nothing to do with salary scales.

From reading previous posts, am I being discriminated against and if so what are my options?

Thanks in advance.

Discriminated against on what grounds?
Or more specifically, on any of the grounds that are against the law?

I’ve been in your situation, although not for as long. It’s not great, and you don’t feel appreciated, but your options are probably limited to putting up with it or looking elsewhere. 

Discrimination in that others are being awarded cost of living regardless of earnings,

Nothing unlawful about that.

Tokmon

Hilary41 said:

Hi, I’m looking for advice on the awarding of Cost of Living rises. I understand that COL rises are at the discretion of the employer.

I was part of a salary review in 2016 and was deemed to be on a higher salary for the position I hold. The outcome of this was my salary was frozen and I would not be awarded any COL increases until others in my salary band had caught up. There have been five COL increases since. My thoughts are that COL awards are nothing to do with salary scales.

From reading previous posts, am I being discriminated against and if so what are my options?

Thanks in advance.

So since 2016 you have been paid more than your colleagues are for doing the same job as them even though they have had five COL increases their wages have still not caught up with yours.

So yes you have been positively discriminated against because you have been paid too much for the last 5 years. One option to correct this would be to volunteer to lower your pay down to what your colleagues are being paid and then also volunteer to pay back all the extra pay you have received over the last 5 years and I'm sure your employer would be happy to accept this. 

Marcon

Tokmon said:

Hilary41 said:

Hi, I’m looking for advice on the awarding of Cost of Living rises. I understand that COL rises are at the discretion of the employer.

I was part of a salary review in 2016 and was deemed to be on a higher salary for the position I hold. The outcome of this was my salary was frozen and I would not be awarded any COL increases until others in my salary band had caught up. There have been five COL increases since. My thoughts are that COL awards are nothing to do with salary scales.

From reading previous posts, am I being discriminated against and if so what are my options?

Thanks in advance.

So since 2016 you have been paid more than your colleagues are for doing the same job as them even though they have had five COL increases their wages have still not caught up with yours.

So yes you have been positively discriminated against because you have been paid too much for the last 5 years. One option to correct this would be to volunteer to lower your pay down to what your colleagues are being paid and then also volunteer to pay back all the extra pay you have received over the last 5 years and I'm sure your employer would be happy to accept this. 

Any colleagues squawking about discrimination because they have been paid so much less than you for doing the same job?

wilfred30

Hilary41 said:

Hi, I’m looking for advice on the awarding of Cost of Living rises. I understand that COL rises are at the discretion of the employer.

I was part of a salary review in 2016 and was deemed to be on a higher salary for the position I hold. The outcome of this was my salary was frozen and I would not be awarded any COL increases until others in my salary band had caught up. There have been five COL increases since. My thoughts are that COL awards are nothing to do with salary scales.

From reading previous posts, am I being discriminated against and if so what are my options?

Thanks in advance.

It would appear that your 'thoughts' on the matter are irrelevant to your employer so you'll probably have to either suck it up until your colleagues catch up or look for another job.

Undervalued

Hilary41 said:

Hi, I’m looking for advice on the awarding of Cost of Living rises. I understand that COL rises are at the discretion of the employer.

I was part of a salary review in 2016 and was deemed to be on a higher salary for the position I hold. The outcome of this was my salary was frozen and I would not be awarded any COL increases until others in my salary band had caught up. There have been five COL increases since. My thoughts are that COL awards are nothing to do with salary scales.

From reading previous posts, am I being discriminated against and if so what are my options?

Thanks in advance.

Maybe "discriminated" but probably not UNLAWFULLY discriminated.

There is no legal right to a pay rise ever unless your salary falls below the national minimum wage. There may however be some contractual rights depending on your terms and conditions.

Otherwise, if you could show that the real reason you did not get a pay rise was due to discrimination on one of the handful of legally protected grounds (e.g race, gender, religion etc) then you would have a case. However unless it is for one of the protected reasons the company can "discriminate" however it pleases.