No Pay Rise - Advice needed please!!!!

[CLAHE1416]

I have been at my company for 12 years now, it's a small (10 employees) Finance company in London. I was full time and went down to 3 days per week after I had my 2 children. My company is not flexible but my attendance and commitment is good. My new boss of two years now hasn't given me a pay rise, I got nothing last year and nothing again this year. When asked why I didn't get on she said she feels I'm over paid, which I don't think I am. I know deep down it's because i'm part time, been here a long time and he knows I need this job to support my family. I'm HR, he is the director so I don't know what I can do. It's just deflating as I can see other people who have been here a year get an annual pay rise and he has paid £55K on recruitment fees this year. I like my job and have locked shares I can't walk away from. I just don't know what to do!!! Any advice.

Can you go over his head?
Do you have targets / a performance plan?
Can you agree a level of work that would "deserve" a pay rise?
Can you show him equivalent jobs that pay more?
Is there a pattern of part time workers being paid less? That is grounds for a grievance but that's nuclear territory.

Really all you can do is leave if you can't negotiate.

Unfortunately OP if you are not willing to walk away from the job, and if they are aware that you would not be willing to walk away from the job, then you have no negotiating power really.

They are willing to pay you X for the job you do, you would like to be paid Y, but both they & you know that regardless you will continue to stay and do the job for X, so they have no reason or motivation to offer a pay rise if they don’t want to.

I would also start documenting your wins, so when you next ask for a pay rise, you can show your impact.

Well if you are HR what advice would you give yourself? You know it’s illegal to discriminate against part time workers, start documenting it, put together a case. If there’s nobody above him (board?) then you’ll need to take it to ACAS and see what they recommend.

Are you the only employee not to receive a pay rise?
Are you the only part-time employee?
Are you the only woman?

That's awful that he said he thought you were overpaid! I'd leave jist bc of that personally. Sorry I have no idea what locked shares are but they sound like a pita if they mean you have to hang on somewhere which doesn't want you around.