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  • Salary Question

    lating to this Background: I worked for a project team [my actual role was a sales agent. During a company restructure in May, my team was made permanant. My team were mapped into our roles [we didnt have to apply for them] becuase of this we forefitted our sales roles. I currently get a basic salary of £18500 and fixed monthly commission of £1000

    The company have come back with a salary proposal for our the new permanant roles of £22000, i would prefer to be made redundant than accept these terms. I have been advised by my trade union rep that if i do not agree to the salary, the company can give me 28 days notice and impose the new salary.

    Apparently this is part of employment law. After some googling i cannot find anything relating to this. Is anyone able to shed some light?
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    I don't think you can just demand to take redundancy if the employer is not actually reducing its workforce, and they would have to follow set procedures for doing so. It sounds like they have offered new terms of contract which you are unhappy with. What I think your union rep is getting at is that if you continue to refuse to agree the new terms then they could give notice to terminate your contract (statutory minimum is 1 week though your contract may say more) and could offer the new terms again to you. If you refuse again then you could be out of a job.

    If you are dismissed then if you have worked for 2 years or more then there may be a case for unfair dismissal but you are very unlikely to win if the business has a good reason for this change.

    There may also be a term in the contract which allows the employer to vary the contract terms by giving reasonable notice, hence the rep saying they can give 28 days notice before imposing but that is something you will have to check in your employment contract. If there is no right to vary the terms of the employment contract then they can't impose it and would need your consent to do so. In that event, the above paragraph will apply.
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      Re: Salary Question

      the restructure in May was to reduce workforce, 250 went, our role was created.

      we are currently going through another with the view of reducing by 500. Our team has been removed and we have entered a counter proposal to retain the team. however i am not will to accept the role for a crap salary.

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