Wage and duties dispute

JReacher1

Take the settlement offer. 

When you go to your employer with a salary grievance and instead of increasing your salary their preferred option is to offer you money to leave then they don’t value you. 

Malarky21

JReacher1 said:

Take the settlement offer. 

When you go to your employer with a salary grievance and instead of increasing your salary their preferred option is to offer you money to leave then they don’t value you. 

Is it woth trying to negotiate a better offer?

Hoenir

Malarky21 said:

JReacher1 said:

Take the settlement offer. 

When you go to your employer with a salary grievance and instead of increasing your salary their preferred option is to offer you money to leave then they don’t value you. 

Is it woth trying to negotiate a better offer?

Your employer may simply opt to follow up on your grievance. 

lincroft1710

Malarky21 said:

JReacher1 said:

Take the settlement offer. 

When you go to your employer with a salary grievance and instead of increasing your salary their preferred option is to offer you money to leave then they don’t value you. 

Is it woth trying to negotiate a better offer?

Is it worth your employer being annoyed with you and withdrawing the offer? Unless of course they are so desperate to dispense with your services, they would increase the offer just to see the back of you!

JReacher1

Malarky21 said:

JReacher1 said:

Take the settlement offer. 

When you go to your employer with a salary grievance and instead of increasing your salary their preferred option is to offer you money to leave then they don’t value you. 

Is it woth trying to negotiate a better offer?

Always worth negotiating

LightFlare

JReacher1 said:

Malarky21 said:

JReacher1 said:

Take the settlement offer. 

When you go to your employer with a salary grievance and instead of increasing your salary their preferred option is to offer you money to leave then they don’t value you. 

Is it woth trying to negotiate a better offer?

Always worth negotiating

Less likely to be successful after being offered some form of payout following a grievance (imo)

robatwork

lincroft1710 said:

Malarky21 said:

JReacher1 said:

Take the settlement offer. 

When you go to your employer with a salary grievance and instead of increasing your salary their preferred option is to offer you money to leave then they don’t value you. 

Is it woth trying to negotiate a better offer?

Is it worth your employer being annoyed with you and withdrawing the offer? Unless of course they are so desperate to dispense with your services, they would increase the offer just to see the back of you!

I've seen this exact thing, time and again unfortunately.

It actually penalises the dedicated and high quality workers, but employers are petrified of tribunals or difficult staff taking long-term sick. In plenty of jobs the worse you are, the less work you'll be given to do (teaching for example), and the better offer you'll receive to leave (seen this with several salespeople). 

Undervalued

robatwork said:

lincroft1710 said:

Malarky21 said:

JReacher1 said:

Take the settlement offer. 

When you go to your employer with a salary grievance and instead of increasing your salary their preferred option is to offer you money to leave then they don’t value you. 

Is it woth trying to negotiate a better offer?

Is it worth your employer being annoyed with you and withdrawing the offer? Unless of course they are so desperate to dispense with your services, they would increase the offer just to see the back of you!

I've seen this exact thing, time and again unfortunately.

It actually penalises the dedicated and high quality workers, but employers are petrified of tribunals or difficult staff taking long-term sick. In plenty of jobs the worse you are, the less work you'll be given to do (teaching for example), and the better offer you'll receive to leave (seen this with several salespeople). 

Some certainly, many maybe but not all by any means.

There are other employers that have in house legal departments and vigorously defend virtually all tribunal claims as they feel it deters others. A couple of the major supermarkets are good examples of this. 

robatwork

I was thinking more of SMEs where even a completely vexatious claim by an (ex) employee can tie up the management for ages and cause legal fees which far outweigh any potential award to the litigant.

I've been involved with one on the "defence" and know from personal experience that the company rightly defended itself on principle and ended up with the ex-employee leaving the tribunal in shame. That didn't make up for the thousands of £ the company lost or dozens of hours preparing even when the litigant had no evidence. 

The prudent option for many smaller companies is the payoff settlement even when undeserved.