Job completely different to the advertised job description. Being underpaid by £10ph

flightboy

I would have stayed a few weeks discussed it with them and proved you are worth the higher value and asking for it to be adjusted

The locations i manage the agency staff work for 12 weeks ( less if they are that good ) and if they work well and suit our operation we hire them and the pay rate increases

Might have made your move too soon! and the job advertised before may have required qualifications and experience you dont have even if you can do the work asked for you right now

Good luck and hope you find a position soon :beer:

Amara

I agree with OP. If employer changed job description without telling employee , that's cheeky and taking a wee wee.

buyaodanxin

Well done - more people should do what you did and refuse to be taken for a ride by employers. In the long run I am sure you will be better off than if you had allowed the job to run.

pilondmpjsa

flightboy wrote: »

I would have stayed a few weeks discussed it with them and proved you are worth the higher value and asking for it to be adjusted

The locations i manage the agency staff work for 12 weeks ( less if they are that good ) and if they work well and suit our operation we hire them and the pay rate increases

Might have made your move too soon! and the job advertised before may have required qualifications and experience you dont have even if you can do the work asked for you right now

Good luck and hope you find a position soon :beer:

If it was something a bit more permanent, I would have given it a fortnight. But, it was a temporary 2-month contract, I didn't want to leave it too long else I would've just been working at the reduced rate. There would have been no guarantee they would backdate my rate, nor that they'd increase it even if I did prove myself.

The current staff there seem to be concerned there are going to be job losses in the coming months as there is a reorganisation about to happen.

I also would have grown to resent them further - which would have affected the quality of my work and my health.

pilondmpjsa

buyaodanxin wrote: »

Well done - more people should do what you did and refuse to be taken for a ride by employers. In the long run I am sure you will be better off than if you had allowed the job to run.

I hope so. It's the principle of it more than anything. I would rather lose out on a bit of cash from my prior redundancy cheque, than work for a company that outright lied and tried to take advantage of me.

Amara wrote: »

I agree with OP. If employer changed job description without telling employee , that's cheeky and taking a wee wee.

Absolutely. It wasn't even a small change, it was the equivalent to about £15-20k per year. Going from an assistant to a full on management professional level. Fine - but pay me for it.

They have about 30% open vacancies (on the org chart) which they aren't filling because of an upcoming reorg, so they're trying to get away with what they can now because they won't need as many people in the future.

I'm not prepared to be a part of a scam, and I pity anybody that ends up being taken for the same ride if they try it again.

unforeseen

pilondmpjsa wrote: »

I resigned.

So very frustrating, particularly as when I was job searching I had to tell recruiters to no longer send my CV across to a few places I wanted to apply to.

To be pedantic, you cancelled the contract that your umbrella had with the agency to supply you to the firm. You never worked FOR the company only contracted to work there.

Whether the agency will follow it up by billing your umbrella (who will bill you) for cancelling the contract without the correct notice is something to consider.

martinsurrey

unforeseen wrote: »

To be pedantic, you cancelled the contract that your umbrella had with the agency to supply you to the firm. You never worked FOR the company only contracted to work there.

Whether the agency will follow it up by billing your umbrella (who will bill you) for cancelling the contract without the correct notice is something to consider.

to be fair to OP, they could, but if they tried OP could counter sue for the agency's breach of contract, they put OP into a different job than the one stated in the contract and interviewed for (the fact its the same employer is irrelevant).

eamon

I've noticed this occuring in my place of work as well. A restructuring happens to reduce head count but not the work. New roles are created, pay less but still have the same work.

pilondmpjsa

unforeseen wrote: »

To be pedantic, you cancelled the contract that your umbrella had with the agency to supply you to the firm. You never worked FOR the company only contracted to work there.

Whether the agency will follow it up by billing your umbrella (who will bill you) for cancelling the contract without the correct notice is something to consider.

Technically it was the company that I was doing the work for that cancelled - so it is they that are answerable to the Umbrella.

I refused to attend until the rate was changed, so they terminated. I effectively resigned, but they made the decision to terminate. They uttered the words.

So by that token, am I able to claim this one week of notice? They'd probably say my refusal to attend was gross misconduct - maybe that's right - in this case the contract can be terminated immediately. In which case not the Umbrella nor me have any claim to that week...

If they (Umbrella or the company I was working for) try anything, I'm very certain any small claims court would throw it out and award in my favour because they (the company I was working for) dishonoured the contract (which clearly stated my job role), by putting me elsewhere. The Umbrella also had my job title as something different, so the mix up is between the Umbrella and the company I was working for.

pilondmpjsa

eamon wrote: »

I've noticed this occuring in my place of work as well. A restructuring happens to reduce head count but not the work. New roles are created, pay less but still have the same work.

In capitalism, we like to refer to these as 'efficiencies'.

It enables the company to extract even more vaulue from employees' labour and forever increase their shareholder returns.

You can only keep growing to an extent, at some point you gotta start screwing people over more to keep the senior managers' salaries growing and at a 100x rate of the lowest paid....