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Before I ask the question(s), I'll give a bit of background.
I worked for Comapny A, who decided to merge with Company B. A few months before merger, the new organization structure was published which indicated a few new posts in the organization. I, along with a few other people, applied for one of these posts, which was a management post (I was in a non-managerial post).
The interviews were held a couple of months before merger and I was offer the job, which I accepted. It had been indicated/implied at the time that my salary would be sorted out once my post was official, i.e. after merger.
3 months after merger and there was still no news, so I began to question why. To cut a long story short, I was passed from pillar to post and then finally told that as part of the merger process, all jobs in the new organization were being evaluated. This new job that I was doing would be part of that evaluation.
So, here we are, 7 months later and I'm now being told it could be anytime between now and June before I hear anything. In the menatime I'm expected to do the job I'm doing, with significant increase in responsibility and pressure, without the renumeration for it!!
The reason I was given for the situation was because I wasn't on a personal contract before the merger, I was part of a collective union committee. So I have to wait on the unions dragging everything out, I'm not even a member of the union so if I ask for advice, I get nothing.
The only positive thing s is that I've been told that any pay rise will be back-dated to the first day of the new organization. But that's besides the point as far as I'm concerned.
Anyway, my questions are;
1. Can I force this issue along in any way? i.e. get a lawyer involved, etc
2. If I was to get another job and left before the salary was finally sorted, would I still be entitled to the back-payment as I had been doing the job during that period, even though I'm no longer with the company.
I worked for Comapny A, who decided to merge with Company B. A few months before merger, the new organization structure was published which indicated a few new posts in the organization. I, along with a few other people, applied for one of these posts, which was a management post (I was in a non-managerial post).
The interviews were held a couple of months before merger and I was offer the job, which I accepted. It had been indicated/implied at the time that my salary would be sorted out once my post was official, i.e. after merger.
3 months after merger and there was still no news, so I began to question why. To cut a long story short, I was passed from pillar to post and then finally told that as part of the merger process, all jobs in the new organization were being evaluated. This new job that I was doing would be part of that evaluation.
So, here we are, 7 months later and I'm now being told it could be anytime between now and June before I hear anything. In the menatime I'm expected to do the job I'm doing, with significant increase in responsibility and pressure, without the renumeration for it!!
The reason I was given for the situation was because I wasn't on a personal contract before the merger, I was part of a collective union committee. So I have to wait on the unions dragging everything out, I'm not even a member of the union so if I ask for advice, I get nothing.
The only positive thing s is that I've been told that any pay rise will be back-dated to the first day of the new organization. But that's besides the point as far as I'm concerned.
Anyway, my questions are;
1. Can I force this issue along in any way? i.e. get a lawyer involved, etc
2. If I was to get another job and left before the salary was finally sorted, would I still be entitled to the back-payment as I had been doing the job during that period, even though I'm no longer with the company.