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HR staff face vague, delayed responses on pay reviews and grievances
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Demand — how loud & how many (score)
Willing to payImplicit
Momentum (7d)▼ 18.2%
Cluster69 posts · 57 people
MarketplaceBambooHR Marketplace
Updated2d ago
The story
The pain
We request pay reviews or raise grievances, and HR either delays decisions for months or gives us ambiguous, non-committal answers. Meetings happen with no progress, and we are left in the dark, feeling forced to leave the organisation.
Evidence
What people said · 69 complaints, 57 people
I requested a pay review 5 months ago and I haven't been given a decision yet. Allegedly there have been 3 meetings about it. In the first meeting they just decided that they need to "change the policy" during the second meeting my manager had nothing to report and the third they told my manager they need more evidence even though they had been seeking advice from HR about evidence.
They’ve essentially gone through some of the points I’ve raised and said “yes we agree this was said, but we don’t class it as discrimination, it’s more of a communication issue”.
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