Local authority pay increase
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Mrs M is a local authority worker - a cleaner so bottom of the pecking order, but she enjoys her job. It's part time (17.5 hours per week), but is a permanent position, salaried and with a good pension. She's been there for nearly 5 years.
The unions negotiated a pay rise with the employers of 3.5%, backdated to April 2018. Mrs was very excited when she heard this, and had plans to treat herself to some Lego with some of the arrears (she's a 52 year old big kid).
We downloaded her payslip and saw how much her backdated pay came to - £5.61. Although she is salaried rather than hourly paid her payslip shows the equivalent hourly rate. It has gone up by a staggering 1p per hour!
A stinging e-mail has been dispatched to HR but can any of the PH employment gurus think of a reason for such a pitiful increase? I'm hoping it is just human error...
The unions negotiated a pay rise with the employers of 3.5%, backdated to April 2018. Mrs was very excited when she heard this, and had plans to treat herself to some Lego with some of the arrears (she's a 52 year old big kid).
We downloaded her payslip and saw how much her backdated pay came to - £5.61. Although she is salaried rather than hourly paid her payslip shows the equivalent hourly rate. It has gone up by a staggering 1p per hour!
A stinging e-mail has been dispatched to HR but can any of the PH employment gurus think of a reason for such a pitiful increase? I'm hoping it is just human error...
matchmaker said:
Mrs M is a local authority worker - a cleaner so bottom of the pecking order, but she enjoys her job. It's part time (17.5 hours per week), but is a permanent position, salaried and with a good pension. She's been there for nearly 5 years.
The unions negotiated a pay rise with the employers of 3.5%, backdated to April 2018. Mrs was very excited when she heard this, and had plans to treat herself to some Lego with some of the arrears (she's a 52 year old big kid).
We downloaded her payslip and saw how much her backdated pay came to - £5.61. Although she is salaried rather than hourly paid her payslip shows the equivalent hourly rate. It has gone up by a staggering 1p per hour!
A stinging e-mail has been dispatched to HR but can any of the PH employment gurus think of a reason for such a pitiful increase? I'm hoping it is just human error...
That does sound like an error. If she's on (say) £10 per hour that would give 35p an hour increase.The unions negotiated a pay rise with the employers of 3.5%, backdated to April 2018. Mrs was very excited when she heard this, and had plans to treat herself to some Lego with some of the arrears (she's a 52 year old big kid).
We downloaded her payslip and saw how much her backdated pay came to - £5.61. Although she is salaried rather than hourly paid her payslip shows the equivalent hourly rate. It has gone up by a staggering 1p per hour!
A stinging e-mail has been dispatched to HR but can any of the PH employment gurus think of a reason for such a pitiful increase? I'm hoping it is just human error...
Likewise, if she's on, for example, £15k a year, a 3.5% increase would be £525 which = £43.75/month. I'm sure you've already worked that out. Point being, the back dated pay for 11 months seems incorrect and worth challenging.
However, they may have caps on pay grades and if she's already at or above the cap, the pay rise may not be applicable.
However, they may have caps on pay grades and if she's already at or above the cap, the pay rise may not be applicable.
matchmaker said:
Mrs M is a local authority worker - a cleaner so bottom of the pecking order, but she enjoys her job. It's part time (17.5 hours per week), but is a permanent position, salaried and with a good pension. She's been there for nearly 5 years.
The unions negotiated a pay rise with the employers of 3.5%, backdated to April 2018. Mrs was very excited when she heard this, and had plans to treat herself to some Lego with some of the arrears (she's a 52 year old big kid).
We downloaded her payslip and saw how much her backdated pay came to - £5.61. Although she is salaried rather than hourly paid her payslip shows the equivalent hourly rate. It has gone up by a staggering 1p per hour!
A stinging e-mail has been dispatched to HR but can any of the PH employment gurus think of a reason for such a pitiful increase? I'm hoping it is just human error...
Human error. As a complete guess - Somebody's applied the "hourly increase" uplift to the "annual salary" figure embedded in the payroll system. So it thinks the "hourly increase" (eg 30pph) is the annual salary increase and then divided that by however many hours she works IYSWIM.The unions negotiated a pay rise with the employers of 3.5%, backdated to April 2018. Mrs was very excited when she heard this, and had plans to treat herself to some Lego with some of the arrears (she's a 52 year old big kid).
We downloaded her payslip and saw how much her backdated pay came to - £5.61. Although she is salaried rather than hourly paid her payslip shows the equivalent hourly rate. It has gone up by a staggering 1p per hour!
A stinging e-mail has been dispatched to HR but can any of the PH employment gurus think of a reason for such a pitiful increase? I'm hoping it is just human error...
The odd thing is the hourly rate for each grade of staff tends to be a "global" figure and applies to everybody on that particular contract, so I would have expected all her colleagues to have had the same issue?
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