I currently work at a large finance company and I've been in my current role for nearly 2 years. When I first joined, my small team was in a different department that wasn't really relevant to the job - I think mainly because the team was thrown together not long before I joined and that was the only department with the budget for it sadly.
Summer 2022, things start looking up and we get moved to a more relevant department for our job role and our team is combined with another team. We are told at this point that our job titles will also change to something that reflects our job more (before this, our titles were completely incorrect for our job role) and our job grade will move upwards which we were happy with. FYI salary is determined by what job grade you are!
We all expected this to happen in a reasonable amount of time for HR to sort out, perhaps a month or so. Well, after this we were then told we are hiring a new person and it makes it easier for HR to wait for them to join first so we can all move job grading etc together. Makes sense I guess, so we all waited until the new person joined in September. September comes and goes and there is still no word of anything happening. New year comes and goes and now we are all getting quite fed up and concerned. We were then told it makes sense to now wait until after the general annual April 2023 pay review!
It has been nearly a year since we moved department and we still haven't been moved to the correct 'Job Family' or salary range for our department. There is an equivalent job grading in our new department as our old job grading, and the pay is significantly higher. I queried why none of our salaries meet the minimum salary that someone in our department with our job grading has, and was told it is because we are still being graded according to our old department. How? On our internal company systems our cost centre is the new department so HR clearly have us listed in our new department. Essentially we are not getting paid the minimum salary for our job grade.
I feel completely stuck. I'm not an expert but surely this can't be allowed to happen? I just don't know what employment issue this would be or if there is even grounds to complain about this. Please bear in mind that other companies pay in the 30k/40k range for the same job, and all of us are paid in the low 20k's and the longest serving people are paid under 20k at over 50 years old!
Does anyone think I am just being fussy or is there grounds for some sort of complaint here?