Hello,
Any HR people around please? I work for a company and am EA to one of the Directors. This director has now left and the company is recruiting for another. Until then , one of the other directors is covering his division. The COO has decided that in order to get to learn how to work how the other director works I will now be line managed by the EA of that director as she already know that director and how they like to do things. So instead of the EA just showing me and I carry on reporting to the other Director to temporarily , the EA will actually line manage me. I am responsible for 2 areas and they are responsible for one and I know that I am paid more than them.
My contract says my line managed by Director, not another EA!
The COO has also said they really would prefer me to give up my second area as they think my first area will be a lot of work as I'm learning new ways of working with the director taking over in the short term. They have said just for a short time.
However I know that the long term plan is probably that each EA only has one responsibility and my second they want to be handed off to someone else. However I was recruited for and paid more for the two responsibilities so I fear that although the COO has made it very clear they want me to give up the second responsibility just until a new director comes in post, they will actually use the fact that I will be too busy to do it in the future and therefore they won't give it me back and reduce my pay accordingly.
Can they do this?