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Equal Pay

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quietlycontent · 21/11/2024 14:23

Interested to know how you would deal with this one.

I am on a fixed term contract but my boss has told me he has the email to make it a permanent role. It won't be advertised they want me to have the job.

Also its 'pay review time' and I have had a review - I have been in role just 12 months, and I got a great review.

He gave me a 5% pay rise (above the suggested 4%) and I got my personal goals bonus and some shares. All fantastic news and I am delighted

The rub is that in a team of 5 I am the only woman - one of them is acting up at the moment so we will take him out of the equation. When I asked if my new pay is on parity with my colleagues as we all do the same role and have the same responsibilities the answer was no. A little more conversation and the gap is more than 10% (after my pay rise) the others have been in role 1 year longer but some responsibility for a large important (to the organisation) project has just been taken from one of the team and given to me.

My question is do I push this now (before I get my new contract) I don't feel like I can just leave it because frankly its terrible. I work for a global organisation in European offices they should have guardrails in place against this kind of thing and I am a little disappointed.

Other than this its a fantastic place to work and is actually full of men and women of all ages and nationalities so really quite a mixed bunch.

Anyway would be interested to hear thoughts

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ACynicalDad · 21/11/2024 15:40

Can you wait for the offer? If they pushed back, maybe you could try constructive dismissal/tribunal.

TheNinkyNonkyIsATardis · 21/11/2024 15:49

Do they have pay scales for the role, and are all the team within them?

It was a different context, but we had scales at a previous organisation where people coming to the role with sector experience were placed mid-band initially, whilst those with skills but no sector experience were placed at the bottom.

This usually evened up after one year (or not) depending on ability in the role.

quietlycontent · 22/11/2024 09:37

No we don't have any published pay scales, I am going to wait for the offer then politely ask in writing that they benchmark my salary against the other members of the team (It might be that they do that before hand)

Lets wait and see but the more I thought about it last night the more frustrated I am that they are happy to pay me 10% and for me to have pension contributions, bonus calculations and my 'other benefits' pot which is also calculated based on my base salary.

Its just not fair (or legal) I am so frustrated

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