Hello, I'm new here after finding your forum whilst looking for help with a problem. My husband works full time at a factory and at the beginning of this year moved into a more responsible role which involved moving to a tree shift rotation (£1 per hour extra paid immediately) and upon completion of training a substantial pay increase. Two other men were also moved into the same role a month before him and he presumed that they were on the same pay. Three months later he passed his test and was told that he would be fully made up and would get his pay rise on the next pay day (monthly pay). Payday arrived and no pay increase but was fobbed off that he would be paid the money owed in the following months wage. Come the next payday there was no increase OR backpay so went up to the office to find out why and after being fobbed off a couple of days later was told that there was no pay rise and that even though he had now been doing the job for 5 months that he was never officially moved into it. As you can imagine he was furious and more so after talking to the two others in his role to find out if they had their rise and finding out that they had had it from day one even though they were on training for the tree months too. At this point he went to see his union rep and eventually after a few weeks he was offered a change in contract with the pay rise but only partial back pay. He wanted to fight for full reimbursement but took his reps view that the workplace has unofficial exit lists and that he would probably end up shortly looking for work again. Now he has a letter confirming everything and this Friday was expecting a substantial pay packet, but lo and behold, no rise or back pay. This was after a night shift so he sent a text direct to a member of the office staff that deals with it. After getting up he had no reply so called and just got through to voice mail then he called the next person down the ladder only to be told they were aware of it and their boss was angry at my oh for texting them! Also that there was nothing to be done until the physical pay slips come in on Monday:-x I am now at a loss with what to do, my oh is sick and tired of the situation and furious. He wants to demand that they pay him from petty cash or write him a cheque if that is insufficient but I don't know of his rights. This is causing us some problems as my son and his family live a long way off and we are visiting them next weekend and the plan was to take all of their Christmas present round then as we may not be able to afford the trip again until well into the new year. Now if he doesn't get the money owed to him we won't be able to do it without borrowing cash. Wouldn't be so bad but we had a very expensive repair bill a couple of weeks ago which we went ahead with because we were expecting extra money coming in as we had it in black and white. Any help or advice will be very gratefully recieved.