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Ask the expert: Pay grade - has this employee got a case?

Posted by Adam Partington, Esther Smith in Pay & benefits on Tue, 29/03/2011 - 10:49

This time the experts, Esther Smith and Adam Partington advise on whether an employee could take action against the employer for effectively down-grading them.

The question: Pay grade - has this employee got a case?

Last year (May 2010) we went into consultation where the role was split into two roles where the current employee was consulted with to take one of the new roles or take redundancy. The member of staff liked the people side of one of the roles and did not like the strategic part of the second role so took the people management role.

This role would report into the strategic manager when they were appointed. The people role attracted a smaller salary by £7000 but the person was not concerned about this as salary was not their priority.

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