job share equal pay?

[notimeparttime]

Hi

I was wondering whether anyone could tell me whether or not 2 workers who are job sharing should be on same salaries.

My employer seems to have been paying me considerably less than the girl I job shared with despite me having worked for the company longer by at least one year.

While I accept the person I shared with had more experience there wasn't any difference in what we did, we shared the files and clients without any differentiation.

A couple of other issues have arisen recently and I want to get my facts straight before I have a meeting with HR.

Thanks

I do a job share and I earn more than my other half - this is due to my lenght of service, I get a pay rise every year and so as I have been there longer I earn more. Eventually though she would catch up - but she is leaving so whoever takes her job will start on the bottom ladder again and it will take around 7 years for that person to level with me.

I have a friend in a job share and it is the same for her - pay is on length of service, so she gets a different salary from her job share partner.

Depends on how salaries are decided where you work.

Is there a salary structure where you are, with bands or grades or anything? Or are salaries purely individually negotiable? It doesn't sound as though length of service is taken into account where you are, but there's nothing wrong with that. Salaries are frequently based on a combination of the job being done, performance levels and also sometimes skills/experience brought to the role.

There's nothing stopping you negotiating, and making a clear case that you are doing exactly the same job, and presumably that you are performing at least as well as your job share partner, but there's no legal requirement to have salaries the same as really the only specific legislation around pay is about equal pay between a man and a woman.