Any teachers been through something like this before? Pay meeting issue

[Mamma246]

I’ve got a pay threshold meeting this week. Two years ago I was on UPS1 and then got seconded to another school to be put on leadership (L1) for a year. Now I’m back at my original school and they have said that they don’t know what to pay me because I didn’t have a threshold meeting to go up to UPS1 (not my fault- some paperwork just wasn’t done I suppose) so a high level manger from the MAT is coming over to join my HT for the meeting. Initially I was fine about it but I sent an email to my HT to ask if I should bring anything and they came to my classroom for a face to face meeting instead of replying. I couldn’t meet them because I was in the middle of a training call, but it seemed cagey, which tbh isn’t unusual behaviour for them.
Sorry for the essay! Just wondering if anyone has been through anything similar or is a senior member of a trust that could advise. Do I need to worry?
TIA

This sounds dodgy.
As far as I was aware once you are awarded UPS you can’t have it taken off you unless you move schools as no guaranteed pay portability anymore.
I would have thought if the payed you UPS1 before your secondment then you have gone through the threshold.
I’m not SLT though.

Thank you! Any perspective is helpful because the HT’s behaviour today spun me out a little bit. I feel like I’m being set up for something!

Give your Union a call for advice perhaps

Turning up at your room to talk to you in person smacks of wanting to sort it out without putting something in writing!
Did you have any paperwork when you were put onto UPS1 originally?

Do you have payslips that show that you were paid this amount, and for how long?

Yes I do actually! Good shout. Thank you