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Back pay question
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 2:44 pm
by Cocker Claret
Had a look on the internet and can't find an answer.We were due a pay rise in May 2018, and we've now been told we will get it in May this year.This will be about £1000.My question is, if i leave my job before then am i still entitled to my payback? I work on the shop floor and i'm hourly paid and i work for a leading food manufacturing company.Thanks in advance.
Re: Back pay question
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 2:46 pm
by TVC15
If the agreement is that the pay rise will be back dated then normally you will be just as entitled to it as somebody who is not leaving.
Check with your manager or personnel department though
Re: Back pay question
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 2:56 pm
by strayclaret
Unless the pay award has a caveat saying only those in employment at the time of the agreement are entitled to the pay award.
Yes you are
Re: Back pay question
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 4:08 pm
by South West Claret.
Your first point of call should be your Trade Union officer at Branch or Head Office as part of your subscription should be free legal assistance if it comes to it.
Re: Back pay question
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 4:18 pm
by Quickenthetempo
You are entitled to it, but it will be a hell of a lot harder to get it if you're not working there.
Re: Back pay question
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 10:25 pm
by Cocker Claret
Thanks for your help, i am in the union so i'll ask the question, waiting over a year for back pay just seems like a joke to me.
Re: Back pay question
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 10:52 pm
by South West Claret.
Cocker Claret wrote:Thanks for your help, i am in the union so i'll ask the question, waiting over a year for back pay just seems like a joke to me.
It certainly is out of order and not only should you get "your" back pay owed to you but with interest as well.
Have you not got a TU rep/shop steward in your department? as he or she should have been on the case ages ago.
Oh by the way a Companies personal department will be on the Companies side and not yours in most cases in my experience.
Re: Back pay question
Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2019 12:31 am
by thatdberight
South West Claret. wrote:It certainly is out of order and not only should you get "your" back pay owed to you but with interest as well.
No. There's no way in which you "should" get this unless there's something specific in the pay award. You just made that up.
South West Claret wrote:
Oh by the way a Companies personal department will be on the Companies side and not yours in most cases in my experience.
Company's*
Personnel*
Re: Back pay question
Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2019 12:46 am
by thatdberight
I'd like, if we have one, an HR professional to interject. I don't see how it couldn't be due, assuming, as I think is the case here, that this is a standard rise across a group of TU-negotiated workers. But I'd like to understand if that's wrong.
Re: Back pay question
Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2019 11:31 am
by South West Claret.
thatdberight wrote:No. There's no way in which you "should" get this unless there's something specific in the pay award. You just made that up.
If an Employer and Employees have agreed a wage rise then that wage rise should be honoured, if it isn't it's only reasonable that the Employees expect interest on "their" money that has been withheld by the Employer unless agreed.
Don't accuse people on a public MB of lying without sufficent evidence.
Company's*
Personnel*
If an Employer and Employees have agreed a wage rise then that wage rise should be honoured, if it isn't it's only reasonable that the Employees can expect interest on "their" money that has been withheld by the Employer unless agreed.
Don't accuse people on a public MB of lying without sufficent evidence.
Thank you for acting as a spell checker.
Re: Back pay question
Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2019 12:20 pm
by thatdberight
South West Claret. wrote:Don't accuse people on a public MB of lying without sufficent evidence.
Thank you for acting as a spell checker.
Not lying. Just making things up with no shred of evidence.
sufficient*
You're welcome.
Re: Back pay question
Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2019 2:47 pm
by South West Claret.
thatdberight wrote:Not lying. Just making things up with no shred of evidence.
sufficient*
You're welcome.
Much the same.
That would be right *
I take it back about your spell checking skills ... you are useless.