Unequal Pay

HMorton

I'm a team leader for a large company which is currently advertising for additional staff.

On the ad they displayed the salary which is considerably more than I'm currently earning. The ad was removed and replaced with another not showing the actual salary, just that it was negotiable.

My question is can the company employ staff, pay them a higher wage and expect me to train and manage them. Am I legally entitled to question the pay structure and the starting salary for new employees ?

Bobl

Unless you are in a unionised environment where pay grades are applied and rates negotiated there is nothing illegal about offering different salary levels depending on skill and experience. Your only option is to go into your annual review, if you have one, with why you are worth more to the business, if not you may have to job hop to achieve more - a very common practice.

j.e.j.

Do the newcomers have more qualifications or a specific set of skills perhaps? That's the only logical reason I could think of for paying them less than you.

ohreally

Apply for one of the posts if the renumeration package is contentious.

smileylondongal

It's not illegal. There is often discrepancy between the salaries of those coming in and those already there - the important thing is to try to prove your worth at appraisal and pay review time. At the end of the day, you don't completely know the in's and out's of why they're advertising that pay.

Hammyman

HMorton wrote: »

My question is can the company employ staff, pay them a higher wage and expect me to train and manage them. Am I legally entitled to question the pay structure and the starting salary for new employees ?

They can pay them what they want. There is no right to be paid the same as long as the difference is not on the grounds of sex, race, religion or disability. You have the right to question the pay structure and they have the right to tell you nothing will change.

I spent nearly two decades in a job where it was common for the employees to earn more than the managers.

TEDDYRUKSPIN

Yep. They can do that. Happens a lot nowadays. You will be actually surprised. Sometimes people forget. In the contract, sometimes your sick leaves or holiday entitlement is actually better than the new staff to be recruited.

Sometimes, the recruitment salary is'nt actually what they pay the person also.

LadyMissA

HMorton wrote: »

I'm a team leader for a large company which is currently advertising for additional staff.

On the ad they displayed the salary which is considerably more than I'm currently earning. The ad was removed and replaced with another not showing the actual salary, just that it was negotiable.

My question is can the company employ staff, pay them a higher wage and expect me to train and manage them. Am I legally entitled to question the pay structure and the starting salary for new employees ?

maybe it was a mistake with the salary?

scheming_gypsy

It's all too common. When I left a job 4 years ago I managed to apply for half of my old job that was advertised at £7000 more than I was being paid. External team managers were coming in at a few grand higher than the existing ones and internal pay rises never took the old staff to the new pay rate.

snowqueen555

ditto that, certain job roles in my company tend to have paybands, rather than specific salaries, and they will pay according to your experience

an9i77

Companies usually pay whatever the market dictates they have to pay to get the calibre of staff they need. I worked somewhere where the market rate for the job changed, due to shortage of qualified staff in that field, meaning that loyal members of staff with several years service were earning less than newcomers. Not fair but totally legal and unfortunately proves that loyalty doesn't pay.