Asked for a salary review and now have to reapply

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I've been at my job for 3 years and recently raised to my manager that I do more than is in my JD and would like my salary to be reviewed. They agreed and also said they would like to change some aspects of my JD. I was then informed that because my JD and salary are changing I will need to re-interview for my job and it will be externally advertised too.

I have a job interview for another job of much higher pay for similar work, I'm in the mindset now of fuck my current job and put all my time outside of work towards preparing for this other interview.

Any advice or thoughts on this??

I'm so annoyed and humiliated that I'll possibly lose my current job to a better candidate

The real answer is you must get a new job. These people don't want you, so one way or another your job is going to be at risk anyway.

Anyone that told me I would have to reapply for my own job and that I might not get it would be essentially telling me to leave. No need to get upset about it, just find a new job and then hand in your notice.

Sure, but evidently hadn’t. No need to snark 🤷‍♀️

She came here to ask humans. Why copy and paste AI slop?

It sounds like HR are about to fuck you over.

I'd be looking for a new job and keeping my options open.

You’re on a fixed term contract?

Now they want to add things to the role?

id think it was reasonable to advertise as it’s going to be a different role

It's blocking up OPs thread with AI shite and this is not helpful so yes I will 'snark'. How do you know OP hasn't looked at AI. Everyone else is able to do so in seconds.

That isn't true in all cases.

But she’s actually on a fixed term contract which ends next month. Her job was always planned to end. She’s not being made redundant they’re just not extending the fixed term

No they don’t - NHS for example advertise jobs internally all the time.

Because AI isn’t slop and knows more than many of the humans posting on here about employment law 🤷‍♀️

I don’t think that’s true after 2 years though. You have legal rights even if you are on fixed term contracts, otherwise everyone would always just have fixed term and there would be no repercussions on employers treating staff badly

I don’t know what the situation is now as l think the rules on workers rights have changed, but previously you needed 104 weeks of continuous service to have full rights, so it depends on how often the contract was renewed. My DH worked as a contractor and contracts were renewed after 103 weeks, so the two years continuous service was never achieved.

After 2 years you have the right not to be unfairly dismissed. Even on a fixed term.

Bring an unfair dismissal claim and go and get the new job as well.

She’s been there more than two years though - so has the same employment rights as a permanent member of staff (one reason of many why we don’t keep people in our junior training posts for more than two years).

It would depend on how often the contract was renewed. If it’s less than 104 weeks each time she would never achieve two yers continuous service.

You're totally incorrect.

As long as she has 2 years continuous service, she has the same rights as a permanent employee.

Sounds very public sector. Happened to someone I knew. They had to re-advertise the role.

This is why contracts piss me off - they are prone to exploitation in my view as the employee feels under pressure to overperform, thinking it's going to lead to a contract renewal, when there's no guarantee of a renewal or if they'll be on good terms.

I'd be careful if I were you OP. They're been taking the piss so far, so they will likely do this again in the additional duties they want to put in there. If you're having to regularly work over your contracted weekly hours, then they should advertise those hours honestly, but they won't, because they want to lure you or the next person into thinking the role is fairly compensated, at least on paper.

Apply for that other job.

Wow.

I didn’t mean if they were re-organising. I meant with promoted roles. No mention from OP of re-organising. My DH has worked in public sector for 20 years and they have always had to advertise externally for promoted roles – not legally but to comply with transparency, fairness and equality requirements.

We didn’t. Only at certain levels of pay.

OK. It has been with my DH who has worked across civil service, education sector and NHS across 20yrs. It has always been a policy requirement.

My DH works in the NHS, been in three different trusts now. They have always had to advertise externally. He is a band 9 and recruits a great deal – it’s in their policy requirements.

I have worked for the same company 15 years and had several role changes and salary reviews and never had to reapply for a job unless it was a completely different role involving a huge promotion. I say they are being unfair if you had better opportunities elsewhere go . If they thought you where important they would offer you salary increase without all the nonsense

We don’t have to advertise regraded roles or even the same role with slight changes and a new job title.

I think this is likely a legal requirement so if you’ve been performing wouldn’t worry