There has been a lot of kerfuffle the last 9 months - my team has moved to a different department with the promise of a new job title, higher job grade and with the higher job grade, a higher salary. It took 9 months to get it sorted with us working in the mean time in that department without the job title/pay etc. Anyway, that part is sorted now although the pay was lower than we expected for our job grading in our department (job grading in each department is available for anyone to view)
I noticed on my company website where it holds our job information that my 'Job Family' is completely different to the department that I actually work in. We have nothing to do with that department whatsoever and it is completely unrelated. I messaged HR that this may be incorrect and could they update it - they responded with 'it was agreed with your senior leader that your new roles be in that Job Family'. Well, there it is - my suspicions are that they have put our role in that Job Family in order to pay us less as that department/job family are the lowest paid in the whole company. It isn't a budget thing either, I can see our salaries are being paid out the budget for our actual department and to avoid any doubt, my company information says I am in the correct department, I work in that department area and regularly go to conferences/meetings etc for that department. In my eyes, it clearly took 9 months to sort out because they were probably discussing with Legal and HR the legality of whether they can do what they have done or not.
How can they do this? Is this even legal?! I genuinely don't know what to do next. I am debating just leaving but curious if there is realistically anything else I can do.