I work for an international company. They agreed multiple times to let me relocate from the UK as it makes no difference to them. I found a new house in the new country, and they wrote me a new contact in 2021 (with a pay reduction to reflect the new country, fine) to start work in August 2022 (had to do the contract early for visa etc).
I got pregnant in January 2022 and so didn't start this new contract until 2023 when I returned from maternity leave.
In my absence everyone had pay reviews, and I was even given a little bump. But I don't get an actual raise.
The pay review was for my UK contact and won't be applied to my new one (lol) because they insist that they magically foresaw inflation rates and predicted the 2023 landscape and so whatever foreign contract from 2021 says, that's basically my salary. But they still get to put me down as a statistic who got a pay bump.
If I push too hard I'm scared they'll take away my remote working priveleges which has been hinted at and I need to look after my kid.
I come from a really working class background and fought to work there, and I hear all the time how my peers who do way less get way more because they're all poshos.
Please everyone join a union (I'm in one so will totally start a case if I have to), and forward emails to your personal accounts.