Is this legal (employment question)?

[Alton Turner Blackwood]

Employer sends a mail saying employees across the board will get a certain percentage increase this year. They then send a mail a week later stating that increases can no longer be paid. I don't want to divulge too much, but that's the TL;DR version.

I mean people plan their lives around their salary so it's a pretty disappointing thing to accept.

 

[R13...]

Employer sends a mail saying employees across the board will get a certain percentage increase this year. They then send a mail a week later stating that increases can no longer be paid. I don't want to divulge too much, but that's the TL;DR version.

I mean people plan their lives around their salary so it's a pretty disappointing thing to accept.

Not sure if employers are legally bound by such communication. Typically it would be a letter not an email. I know that when incentive bonus communication is sent via email it comes with a disclaimer that the comms isn't a guarantee of email as that can only come after board/REM approval.

 

[|tera|]

Yes it's legal unfortunately.

Be glad your salary isn't decreased. Which happened to me at my last employer. Systematically destroyed my life over a year and half. Salary at the end was a quarter of my usual salary. So I resigned and moved to family.

I'm not being a jerk. Just saying it could be worse.

 

[TheChamp]

Salary increases are based on affordability, the employer can backtrack as we have seen with government. You can compel the employer to prove that they can't afford it but it's usually a lost cause if you don't have a union to fight it on your behalf.

 

[WhiteRaven]

When in doubt go back to your employment contract, it should have a clause covering annual increases.

 

[Kosmik]

When in doubt go back to your employment contract, it should have a clause covering annual increases.

Most won't stipulate that and if they do, its clearly at discretion but if all else fails, give it a read.

 

[syntax]

Employer sends a mail saying employees across the board will get a certain percentage increase this year. They then send a mail a week later stating that increases can no longer be paid. I don't want to divulge too much, but that's the TL;DR version.

I mean people plan their lives around their salary so it's a pretty disappointing thing to accept.

bad planning to have it 1 week apart, I could understand like 3 months apart.
But what others have said, you are likely not able to argue this and even if you did, and I am hoping your employee really is honest, if you won you would likely introduce negative financial impact on the company and cause further problems.

 

[Pineapple Smurf]

OP works for a massive company
I know this for a fact
I wouldnt scratch where it dont itch
Just let it be, before your ID number gets put up higher on the list when the retrenchment people make their walk arounds one day

Fly under the radar and shut the **** up

 

[I.am.Sam]

OP works for a massive company
I know this for a fact
I wouldnt scratch where it dont itch
Just let it be, before your ID number gets put up higher on the list when the retrenchment people make their walk arounds one day

Fly under the radar and shut the **** up

divorce lawyers costing a penny bro

plus now alcohol needs to be bought cold and drank same time

costs more bro

 

[bwana]

Lawyers, alimony, child support, higher sin taxes... I get your disappointment

 

[Anti-Chris]

OP works for a massive company
I know this for a fact
I wouldnt scratch where it dont itch
Just let it be, before your ID number gets put up higher on the list when the retrenchment people make their walk arounds one day

Fly under the radar and shut the **** up

If this is true, then I am inclined to believe that the company truly can not afford the increase and restructuring will probably follow... So I suggest the OP be glad that they still have a job and does not have to take a pay cut...

 

[Pineapple Smurf]

If this is true, then I am inclined to believe that the company truly can not afford the increase and restructuring will probably follow... So I suggest the OP be glad that they still have a job and does not have to take a pay cut...

Exactly what I told him, he wants to work for a massive SOE company that provides elelectricity (no names mentioned) he needs to pull up his socks and quit whining.

Since covid started many of us went onto reduced salaries for a while. He didnt, and yet he still bitches about more money. Typical EFF supporter

 

[The_Mowgs]

Exactly what I told him, he wants to work for a massive SOE company that provides elelectricity (no names mentioned) he needs to pull up his socks and quit whining.

Since covid started many of us went onto reduced salaries for a while. He didnt, and yet he still bitches about more money. Typical EFF supporter

But the company made billions in revenue

 

[Pineapple Smurf]

But the company made billions in revenue

Did
All gone now

 

[I.am.Sam]

But the company made billions in revenue

all fake numbers ...