What has your employer done to support you with the cost of living increases?

[daysayso]

If anything?

Can you specify what they've done and also approx the size of your company in terms of number of employees.

My company has done nothing and I'm a bit miffed about it and wandering if this is normal or not given the current crisis?

I’d hope so!

if we ever get to a point where employers can stipulate what you spend the money they give you on, then that would be a very slippery slope.

£2k COL payment. Insurance, 5k plus employees. Most people working from home 3 to 4 days per week so significant increase in energy usage for most (even allowing for reduced commuting costs). Plus company has leased out 50% office capacity since covid - moving to a permanent hybrid pattern - so saving a fortune.

@swanbuster It depends what it is described as. It might not always be unreasonable - eg during lockdowns we got a bit of money to help buy a desk and a bigger screen for WFH if we didn’t already have one. If you didn’t need to buy anything, you didn’t get the money.

I think there might also have been money for some people to help with additional energy costs from WFH in 2020 or 2021, but I can’t remember if you had to evidence that or not.

Yeah, that’s quite different.

Saying ‘The pandemic means you’ll be working from home - if you need a desk, buy it and expense it’ is not the same as saying ‘here’s £1500. Only spend it on food -and energy bills we’ll be asking for receipts.’

For one thing, given money is fungible it’s impossible to police anyway.

My point is that discretionary sums like these should never have conditions attached. Central banks are technically creating something that could be used like this with CBDC’s, and that’s not a good thing.

Nothing.

Posted too soon - we were asked for volunteers to reduce their working hours so they wouldn't have to look a redundancies.

A handful of people took a 4 day week. The staff that remain 5 days have to do extra work for the same money.

Our last pay rise was in 2015 and our company only agreed to it on the 11th hour before a strike.
Our union is currently in talks with the company to try and negotiate a pay increase.

Private company.

I'm struggling to understand why you would be 'miffed' that your employer has done nothing to support you with the cost of living crisis. They didn't cause it, and presumably it affects them also, so why do they need to do anything? They pay you to do your job - anything else is a bonus, but it shouldn't be expected. Mind you, I don't live in the UK and people here, generally, don't seem to feel the same sense of entitlement (thank goodness).

Interesting to read some of these replies, assuming those with the “ why should they pay you more “ view are on higher salaries ?

Nope - definitely not, and I work part-time too.

Mine has done nothing - I haven't had a pay rise in 4 years.

I understand from friends that EY has given all staff, regardless of grade, a one off £2k payment to help with utility bills.

One-off cost of living payment to all staff; extra COL payment to staff below a certain salary. 75% of our annual bonus, due next January, brought forward to September to help ease the winter fuel burden. Ongoing discussions about how to adapt the office space so more staff can come in rather than work at home, where they’ll need to pay for energy. Introduced free breakfasts. Various other bits and bobs.

Nothing and I work for the government. Constantly getting slagged off by Reece Mogg and a pay rise way below inflation. Moral is not good!

Nothing - and why would they ? - work in NHS so have simply picked up some additional hours / weekends

Nothing. It's a small business, they can't afford to.

Reduce meals In the canteen to £2

We’ve given everyone a 6% pay rise and everyone under 30k a £350 one off payment.

2% payrise, 2% bonus. I was not feeling the love.

This^^ I wonder if you work for the same company as me?

There’s been pay increases across the company. More for the lower end. My admin staff got 18% where I got 10%.

Christmas bonus has been doubled but is going to be paid in November as wage instead of Decembers.

What are you expecting them to do? I've had nothing. But they're a company not my friends! No payrise in three years though is starting to get me thinking It's time to move.

Nothing, public sector so being squeezed by government as it is.

Given us a 25p pay rise (it went up in April this year already) and increased our staff discount until the new year. Might be able to afford to do my weekly shop there now (!)

Nothing beyond what they were already doing as "business as usual". I left and got a job at another company that paid more.

3.6% pay rise, made to go back to the office three days mandatory, whilst giving the CEO a 32% rise on his 2.5 million salary.

100,000 employees worldwide.

Nhs here and we've just had our pension contributions put up so not a lot 🤣🤣

3% payrise - we get this annually so not linked to CoL.