I am hoping there may be some HR gurus that can advise on employment situation that I think is unreasonable but am open to hearing otherwise.
The background ;
Employed by local authority in a role at pay grade ‘7’ . Performed said role as per job description including through Covid lockdown and all fine.
Post lockdown asked by employer to ‘help out’ by covering the role of a vacant job position in addition to original post. This continued for 6 months before raising the fact that two roles was impossible to sustain so was asked , as the other role was still vacant , to continue that and original role was not fulfilled.
No performance reviews, no written notification of change or discussions thereafter.
New Role continued for 2 years.
Now informed Second role is a Grade 6 ie lower pay and Original post has been dissolved .
Someone has now been appointed doing something VERY similar to original role.
Been told original role no longer exists and have to take deduction in pay.
At no point was contract signed for second role, no notification in writing or verbally at the time of the implications of changing role ( that was supposed to be helping out) .
Is there a case for unfair deduction in salary and if so how do we go about it?
Member of Unison but they are not interested in assisting.
Apologies if that’s not clear but if anyone has managed to understand and can advise would be very grateful.