cyberknight
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Our pay rise this year is a less than inflation % and a lump sum , lump sum enough to pay for a new rear door that has needed replacing for a long time , easy come soon gone !!
Our pay rise this year is a less than inflation % and a lump sum , lump sum enough to pay for a new rear door that has needed replacing for a long time , easy come soon gone !!
Been contacted about ballot for strike action. I can't ever imagine that our mob would ever go on strike but there might be a vote for a strike.
Like above comments, our employer likes lump sums as is non recurrent, not pensionable and gets clawed back via taxation anyway....
The "gets clawed back via taxation" isn't something that benefits the employer at all, that is just an unfortunate fact of anything they pay you, whether it is a bonus or a pay rise, or anything else except redundancy payments.
It is only the "non-recurrent" part of the above that the employer likes, and why they do it. Plus the fact that it is not consolidated pay, so if they give a % rise (or bonus) next year, it is based on your salary without the lump sum this year.
As my employer pays me out of general taxation, any tax they get back is of benefit to them.
Not really. They don't get the tax back that you pay. Even HMRC staff are taxed the same as the rest of us, and that tax goes into the general tax fund. HMRC don't get to keep it, they just collect on behalf of the government.