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Lorraine

Good morning everyone,

Hope everyone is safe and well! Looking for a bit of advice please;

Back in January I passed my 3 month probation with my current employer and asked for a meeting with my manager at the time. I presented a business case for a salary increase and requested some KPIs for the coming year.

I had delivered as far possible what was within my control the 3 “low hanging fruits” that they wanted from me (employee files and HR document system, handbook and training matrix) and I also completed my CIPD level 5 which was self-funded by the end of my probation hence asking for a pay rise. The job is actually more than what was advertised – essentially creating a HR department from scratch but it was advertise as more of an admin role with support form Norway but it became apparent quite quickly that wasn’t quite how it would go. Having said that, I am driven and ambitious and pushed to take on a lot more so have made the role bigger my doing gap analysis and seeing what else was needed in the Company from a HR perspective.

The January meeting went fine, I was advised that it's not an "if" but a “when" and that there was a management business review in February and my request would be discussed then. 

That time came and went then Covid hit. I was thanked for my work during a period of redundancy and restructuring in May and again told that my request from January was still a "when" not an "if" and it would be discussed at the end of summer once the management team in Norway were back (they take almost all of July off). 

We are now almost at the end of August and I haven’t heard anything further. I want to raise this again but I am also aware of the current situation in the world, obviously! And we are in the Oil and Gas supply chain so things aren't great and we are saving costs where we can BUT we are lucky that we have work on just now and are doing well in the grand scheme.

Looking for some suggestions on how I can raise this again (pay rise) but in a sensitive to the situation manner please.

Many thanks in advance!

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  • Just for another perspective, I was asked to take on an additional role at the beginning of this crisis, and my boss raised the issue of pay with me, saying that he was aware that it needed to be reviewed. I said then that I didn't think it was appropriate for me to get a rise in a situation when everyone else's pay was being frozen, and that it would be good to review at a future point when there was much more clarity about the financial impact on the organisation.

    I don't know whether a similar approach would work for you - if you proactively said to them that you know they are still considering your pay review, but that you don't think now is the time for this to be reviewed? You might suggest to them that it should be delayed until December and considered in light of everything else going on in the company and the world. That approach could help to keep your review on their radar, while showing that you are very much aware of the reality of things - and that while your pay is important (of course it is, it is for everyone) you are also really committed to the organisation as a whole.
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  • Just for another perspective, I was asked to take on an additional role at the beginning of this crisis, and my boss raised the issue of pay with me, saying that he was aware that it needed to be reviewed. I said then that I didn't think it was appropriate for me to get a rise in a situation when everyone else's pay was being frozen, and that it would be good to review at a future point when there was much more clarity about the financial impact on the organisation.

    I don't know whether a similar approach would work for you - if you proactively said to them that you know they are still considering your pay review, but that you don't think now is the time for this to be reviewed? You might suggest to them that it should be delayed until December and considered in light of everything else going on in the company and the world. That approach could help to keep your review on their radar, while showing that you are very much aware of the reality of things - and that while your pay is important (of course it is, it is for everyone) you are also really committed to the organisation as a whole.
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