Pay and new responsibilities

[VixxFace]

Hi can anyone give me some advice regarding work.
The office I worked in was merged with a sister company recently and a result the guy who was doing the same job has been made redundant and I will be taking on his work in order to save costs. so effectively I will be doing twice as much work plus he has been slacking some what meaning I have to back date alot of what he hasn't done.

I just had a meeting regarding these new changes and the director has said hes not sure that he will give a pay increase but will let me know next week! !

if he can he will as I have made a great contribution to the company but if he can't then he wont and I will have to decide what I am going to do.

How do I respond to this? I feel he is taking the piss.! What is a reasonable response and how much should I be asking for? ?

Hi VixxFace - we're just gonna pop this in another topic for you to get the best response.

Thank you

Depends, are they higher responsibilies or just additional workload? New responsibilies at the same level don't usually attract much, if any, payrise in our organisation.

Additional work load so double the work load! My own work and then the guy who was made redundant.

I'm not sure that more of the same type of work puts you in a strong position to get a payrise necessarily. You either have the capacity to take on this additional work or you don't - paying you more money is not suddenly going to create additional time. I think you would be better placed (for your own work-life balance and stress levels) setting down clear boundaries now about how much of this additional work you can realistically absorb into your current role. If you can demonstrate that you are already working at full stretch, that will help you make the case of simply not being able to do all this new work as well, although won't necessarily help get you extra money.

If the other chap has been made redundant, it would suggest that they believe that you have capacity to take on his work. If you are already at full capacity then they still need resource to do the job, hence I would question if his role is redundant. As Unexpected pointed out above, I wouldn't necessarily expect more money for the same type of work.

Thanks for the comments. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I could move forward?

Well to be honest you'll just have to see how it goes, see whether or not the workload is manageable. In my work we wouldn't get paid any more for taking on more work, just for taking on a higher grading of work.

Additional workload of the same work isn't a money issue it's a time issue. If the new quantity of work isn't doable in your hours, more money isn't going to help that. If it isn't doable in your hours there are other ways to address that.

If you want a pay rise that's a separate issue. Get together information about the going rate externally for similar roles, information on how much value you've added to the business and any other supporting information about your personal value and/or the level of the role you are performing, then make a business case for a pay rise.