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royally shafted at work

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moonface19 · 27/05/2021 10:20

PLEASE bear with, its a bit of a tale but would HUGELY appreciate any opinions...

Commenced role March 2019 as MD, salary, car allowance and 10% pension, 6 months notice either side.

1st things wrong is notice someone has gone back to the signed contract held on file and put a line through the 10% (of basic) pension contribution and written 5% ee and 5% er - that wasn't the agreement it was 10% er.
Covid hit and in April and March 2020 received what equated to 50% of salary only. Worked both those months.
Then told in June/July 2020 being put on 6 months notice of redundancy. This meant that notice would run out just before the 2 years service was approaching and out of work on 17th Dec 2020. Then had meeting with owner who said he would take redundancy off the table if accepted a 50% pay cut and drop to one months notice instead of 6 months. Took it as had no other option in middle of a pandemic. Totally taken advantage of by the owner but grateful to be in a job.
To cut to the chase - if I leave, what's the view on a) forcing them to honour the 10% pension on full salary as contracted. Is this a breach of contract?
b) getting them to pay in full for months worked when 'furloughed'?
c) now there is more than 2 years service, going for breach of contract/constructive dismissal?
Very interested to hear from anyone on this one!
Massive thanks in advance

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Lougle · 27/05/2021 10:32

I'm not an expert, but I think that if you have continued working at the firm after the change in conditions, that will taken as acceptance of them. Constructive dismissal claims usually mean that you have had to resign without notice due to the conditions you were subjected to.

Do you have a copy of the contract that you signed? It will be difficult to prove that it wasn't crossed through before you signed otherwise.

ChicChaos · 27/05/2021 10:39

As Lougle said, turning up for work is acceptance of the conditions. They don't sound great employers though, so I can understand why you want to move on and would recommend that you do!

moonface19 · 27/05/2021 10:55

Thanks for your reply - yes I have a copy of the contract (2 sides of A4 but still a contract!). only the employer has initialled the change not me. yuk its all so horrible..

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moonface19 · 27/05/2021 10:55

ha yes definitely time to move on..thank you for replying

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Spiderplantsoutside · 27/05/2021 13:37

Did you actually work when furloughed? In which case if you are able /willing to burn that bridge completely you can tell them if you don’t receive what you’re owed you will go to hmrc and report them for claiming furlough illegally. Then I would leave and report them anyway.

moonface19 · 27/05/2021 17:45

Thank you for your reply..yes I worked flat out!
its a very toxic company sadly - I'm not too concerned about burning bridges at this stage.
I feel I have been taken advantage of and forced to accept detrimental changes to my working conditions by someone who had the power to take my job away.
From the pension amendments through to cutting my salary in half - its been a humiliating experience really.

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moonface19 · 27/05/2021 17:45

@flowery any view?!

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Dee1975 · 01/06/2021 23:04

What do your payslips show regarding pension since you started? Did they ever pay 10%?

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