New Posts For Thread: Anyone know anything about employment law?https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30994675/anyone-know-anything-about-employment-lawSales Job.Basic and commission.The company wants to increase the basic but reduce drastically what you earn in commission. They claim OTE remains the same and is uncapped (which it is) However most earn a lot more than OTE. The whole commission strucAh how the world of work has changed.....what is this "Contract" of which you speak?https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30994675/anyone-know-anything-about-employment-law?post_id=553669509#553669509Ah how the world of work has changed.....what is this "Contract" of which you speak?Fri, 09 Mar 2018 10:49:45 -0600I suspect if you read your contract of employment, there will be something in there to the effect of..... "The company reserves the right to adjust commission payments as appropriate".Pretty standard stuff. If you don't have your employment contracthttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30994675/anyone-know-anything-about-employment-law?post_id=553669193#553669193I suspect if you read your contract of employment, there will be something in there to the effect of..... "The company reserves the right to adjust commission payments as appropriate".Pretty standard stuff. If you don't have your employment contractFri, 09 Mar 2018 09:58:59 -0600When I worked for a large life assurance company they done the same thing. Cut the commission and increased the basic and on the surface it looked a good thing; even the union said so, however; we were conned!After all was agreed and put into practishttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30994675/anyone-know-anything-about-employment-law?post_id=553668639#553668639When I worked for a large life assurance company they done the same thing. Cut the commission and increased the basic and on the surface it looked a good thing; even the union said so, however; we were conned!After all was agreed and put into practisFri, 09 Mar 2018 08:30:51 -0600I had a similar thing a few years ago where the Company cut our hours from 40 to 36 hours a week, but paid us the same money. But could claim that we had an increase in our Hourly Pay, which we did but were no better off. The thing was that they hadhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30994675/anyone-know-anything-about-employment-law?post_id=553667223#553667223I had a similar thing a few years ago where the Company cut our hours from 40 to 36 hours a week, but paid us the same money. But could claim that we had an increase in our Hourly Pay, which we did but were no better off. The thing was that they hadFri, 09 Mar 2018 02:46:02 -0600Also the amount the basic is raising by is not guaranteed in phase 2 roll out.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30994675/anyone-know-anything-about-employment-law?post_id=553666101#553666101Also the amount the basic is raising by is not guaranteed in phase 2 roll out.Thu, 08 Mar 2018 16:29:42 -0600Have you heard of the term "The American Way", well in ireland especially the big multi nationals are dictating employment law, so existing employment legislation is not worth the paper it is written on.This american influence can be seen right acroshttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30994675/anyone-know-anything-about-employment-law?post_id=553665955#553665955Have you heard of the term "The American Way", well in ireland especially the big multi nationals are dictating employment law, so existing employment legislation is not worth the paper it is written on.This american influence can be seen right acrosThu, 08 Mar 2018 16:09:37 -0600Sales Job.Basic and commission.The company wants to increase the basic but reduce drastically what you earn in commission. They claim OTE remains the same and is uncapped (which it is) However most earn a lot more than OTE. The whole commission struchttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30994675/anyone-know-anything-about-employment-law?post_id=553665807#553665807Sales Job.Basic and commission.The company wants to increase the basic but reduce drastically what you earn in commission. They claim OTE remains the same and is uncapped (which it is) However most earn a lot more than OTE. The whole commission strucThu, 08 Mar 2018 15:50:08 -0600