payrise

[Bobby1991]

Since announcing my pregnancy i felt my boss has been off with me and excludes me. i will be taking maternity leave in december and He has recently hired a new girl who he knows to help with my work and to cover me while i am on maternity. i have sinced found out that she has been offered more money then me and when my manager asked for our wages to be the same seen as we will be doing the same work and she has no experience in this field and i have worked in that area on my own for 2 years so we should be on the same wage. my payrise was refused as she has a degree (in something that doesn’t relate to her role) i feel this has to do with me being pregnant and because i will eventually go on maternity leave im not sure whether i can do anything about it? i feel like im being discriminating against for not having a degree also when i have work hard in this role for a long time

Are you in a union? You'll need proper help with this. Try citizens advice or ACAS. I recently went through something similar. It's a horrible feeling. I hope you get it sorted

we are only a small office so we dont have a union i think i will try acas or something, feel like im being pushed out slowly :(

I know it's hard but try not to think like that as it will make you feel worse. Pregnancy can be hard at the best of times without all the extra rubbish being thrown around in your direction, too.
I hope someone with better knowledge than I will be along shortly to help.

Thank you :)

I wouldn't necessarily look at it being because you're pregnant.

They've not cut your pay or not given you an expected raise since you told them, have they? So her extra pay could be because of any number of things - perhaps they do value her degree even though it's not related because of the writing or analysing (or whatever) skills it have her. Or perhaps it's harder to hire people in your role than it was when you joined so they had to pay her more.

I'd focus on you, and as far as you can leave your pregnancy out of it (I know that's tough!). What have you done to merit a raise? What are you worth on the market?

Sorry if that sounds tough but I'd hope it's a positive - just because she's paid more doesn't on its own mean try don't value you!