At the latest Fujitsu Consulting Consultative Forum (FCCF), HR stated that some ex-Fujitsu Consulting employees are likely to receive no pay increase this year.
The company has also decided not to backdate any pay increases, due to take effect from October. This is contrary to previous indications from HR that there was no objection to backdating along with an agreement that the latest meeting of the FCCF was to discuss options for implementation.
The FCCF reps stressed that they understood that the pay pot had been provisioned in April when the transfer to Services took place, and the suspension of the pay review had only occurred to allow the mapping process to be completed. The reps also queried why the pot had been set at 2.5% with 0.5% set aside when it was the reps understanding that the external market is paying at least 1% above that. Both reps and HR discussed examples, but the HR view was that their surveys indicate that the 3% pot is in line with competitors.
Following informal discussions with HR managers, reps have now been informed that Fujitsu Consulting made NO provision for a 2004 pay review when the transfer to Services took place in April, and the current review is only taking place because Services have found the money to supply a 3% pot effective from October.
[Note: others involved prior to the transfer dispute this]
HR managers have since confirmed to Amicus and the FCCF reps that there has been conflicting information on this and that this situation should never have happened. We cannot understand how HR managers had conflicting views on where and when the pot was provisioned.
Those employees who receive no increase, and may not have had a pay rise for several years and will find it hard to reconcile their treatment with the good financial results delivered by Fujitsu Consulting in it's final year. There will be ill feeling that the review is only to be implemented from October when historically the FC pay review has taken place in April. We also have information that some ex-FC managers have decided to interpret the rules to ensure that 30% of their teams receive nothing regardless of how they have performed! This is clearly in contravention of company guidelines, and we have been assured that HR will remind the managers to follow the company guidelines prior to any finalised review.
There is better news for ex-Fujitsu Consulting employees based at Man05 than elsewhere. The formal recognition of Amicus at Man05 means that all employees covered by the Collective Bargaining Unit will be treated the same as Fujitsu Services employees were in April 2004 (where they received a minimum pay rise of 1%) and that the "Guidelines will be as the April review with the priorities agreed for the bargaining unit", as confirmed by Man05 HR by email on the 16th August. HR have also confirmed that they will increase the salary figure used to identify those within the Bargaining Unit to the 2004 level.
It is obvious that the company are attempting, despite previous assurances, to implement the pay review with no regard to employee concerns, morale or the concerns of Amicus or FCCF reps.
Due to this attitude, the FCCF reps have taken the extraordinary step of entirely disassociating themselves from the pay review.
The full minutes of the FCCF meeting are on CafeVik.
Please see the notice of the Amicus survey of Fujitsu Services pay. We are forwarding it because Non Delivery Reports suggest that many members didn't receive the original email for some reason.
There was previously a link on the "MAN05 Union" CafeVIK community to the survey, but HR have censored it without any discussion. We have sent our response to the company on their actions on this, and expect to have a meeting to resolve this issue soon. We will report on progress on this in our local newsletter.
Please feel free to forward this email to your colleagues (members or not) who may be interested.