Potentially underpaid by employer

trh_2

Hi all,

I work for a certain blue and red supermarket. I have been there since Oct 2012. I'm on a 18 hr flexi contract and am paid 7.28/hr as a 'customer assistant'. Recently in the last 4-6 months I have been taking up the role of team leader, covering my team leader's shifts when she is not there and training a lot of new people who have come and gone in anything between a couple of weeks to a couple of months.

My question is should I be paid the team leader's wage for these shifts? I have taken on much more responsibility than my initial job contract and have been trained on all of the departments and not many others in the store could say the same. When I have been covering these shifts I have been doing two people's work and only had help from the new employees who were not up to scratch.

Basically I want some advice on how to approach the situation. I have all my shifts written in my diary. I just don't want to be fobbed off and I'm sure someone reading this would have dealt with a similar situation. I have already updated my cv with the role but would like to be paid the difference for learning so many new skills and dealing with more time pressures than others on same pay scale as me, who do less work.

Thanks in advance, sorry for ramble. TRH

Takeaway_Addict

You can ask but if you did not agree an increase in your wage then that's your fault as you agreed to take the extra work on