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Many thanks for your patience. Unfortunately it will be very difficult for you to try and claim anything in the circumstances. The issue is that you left before the job evaluation process was complete and as such the employer would now have no legal responsibility to pay you anything. This is even if they eventually found that your job would have been entitled to any back pay. Historically there may have been others who have done the same or similar jobs and benefited from the decision of an evaluations process but that does not mean the employer has to now pay all of them. An evaluations process is just an internal process, it is not legally binding and the employer will decide how it is applied and how they use the results. You would only have had rights if you were still in employment with them when the press was complete, for example if others had their pay backdated but you did not. However, once your employment terminates, unless you can show that contractually you had not been paid the money due (remember that this is based on the contract you worked under at the time, not what the employer has eventually decided you must be paid) you cannot claim against them. You could still try and put some pressure on them, such as by going as far as issuing a claim (you can withdraw it at any time and not be bound by it further, so it could be used as a more aggressive negotiating option).

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