My pay was "uplifted" and I earn less 😭

[PeaceandLoveandCoffee]

Hi all,

Wondering if anyone has any ideas of what I can do about this?

I work in the NHS on the agenda for change pay scale. I work 2.5 days per week part time. We have been awarded a pay 'uplift' to increase our pay more (but not really) in line with inflation. This came into force on our September pay but was backdated to April this year.

My problem is that the uplift pushes me into a much higher band of pension contributions based on my full time equivalent salary (9.6 to 12.9% to be precise). This has also been backdated to April so in actual fact my pay deceased last month as my actual pay increase was about £350 backdated but the pension contributions arrears were £500. This seems incredibly unfair and is frankly not something I can take given I am already earning so little per month (would love to work more hours but can't get anything other than full time which doesn't work for childcare).

I feel like there has been a total oversight to how this "uplift" might affect part time workers who clearly aren't getting the same uplift in actual pay. Do I have any chance at all of doing anything about this by contacting payroll etc?

Thanks for any advice

PeaceandLoveandCoffee Ah yours is much worse than my scheme then as my threshold is based on my actual earnings and not the fte. Yes you have every right to feel annoyed then!

That happened to me last March with a Local government pay award, everyone got a brucie bonus as it was backdated for a year, I got nothing due to the pension bands. There was uproar across people at the same grade, nothing happened.