By eliminating the “Jahressonderzahlung”, colloquially known as “Weihnachtsgeld”, which effectively was a 13th monthly wage at the end of the year, my workplace effectively upended the minimum wage increase from 2022 and the subsequent pay raise for my pay grade, which is barely more than minimum wage anyway. God, I hate being poor. Time to organise some people.
Do you mean pay cut in the title?
Something similar happened to my friend, he was excited about a pay raise at the end of the year but I showed him it actually was effectively a cut as it was below the yearly inflation. Pretty bad times.
It was still a nominal raise, but it was basically negligible in nominal terms and not even remotely sufficient to counteract inflation over the same period.