Equal Pay

eatgarbage

I have been in a job role for over 7 years, we employed a new team member a year ago who has much less experience and still is nowhere near my skill level, however they came into the role from a different department on higher pay than me but the same pay scale. Do I have a case to say I should be paid equal to or more than him?

agrinnall

You can try to make the case to your boss but you have no legal means to enforce it.

marliepanda

eatgarbage wrote: »

I have been in a job role for over 7 years, we employed a new team member a year ago who has much less experience and still is nowhere near my skill level, however they came into the role from a different department on higher pay than me but the same pay scale. Do I have a case to say I should be paid equal to or more than him?

A case? Not really no. There’s no legal basis for equal pay for equal work.

Could you ask? Sure.

eatgarbage

So the equal pay act isn't legally enforceable?

Spidernick

Presumably the individual is moving over from the other department on the same salary as they were on there? If so, that is not unusual and what normally happens is that the worker is then not entitled to any further pay rises until the pay band has caught up. As to whether they deserved a higher salary in the other department, we have no data to say either way.

eatgarbage

Spidernick wrote: »

Presumably the individual is moving over from the other department on the same salary as they were on there? If so, that is not unusual and what normally happens is that the worker is then not entitled to any further pay rises until the pay band has caught up. As to whether they deserved a higher salary in the other department, we have no data to say either way.

Thanks for the reply, what i'm looking at is the Equal Pay Act this states that people should receive equal pay for equal work. My logic is that If I have more experience in this role and they are being paid more I should get an increase.

If I was female I would be able to argue sex discrimination. However this is not necessary as the Act applies to both sexes. Therefor Equal.

xapprenticex

You appear to know what you are doing, keep us updated.

ACG

eatgarbage wrote: »

If I was female I would be able to argue sex discrimination.

And they would be able to argue it is not - I have no idea who would win.

I used to work for a very large company. Our jobs were being made redundant. I was offered a lower grade job, but my wage would have remained the same - my wage would have been more than the banding for that job, but I would not have had a pay rise for about 10 years.

I also used to work for a bank. Someone there was made a manager but did not like it so they stepped down to customer service advisor. Going off your argument, every other customer service advisor should be put on the same wage as a manager?

anamenottaken

eatgarbage wrote: »

. . . what i'm looking at is the Equal Pay Act .

Equal Pay Act (if you are thinking of the 1970 Act) has been repealed.






However, there is the Equality Act 2010 and though for equal pay this applies to both sexes it still requires the comparator to be of the opposite sex.

eatgarbage

Why do they have to be of the opposite sex? I have another colleague who is female. So she could argue it and get a raise and I couldn't? Doesn't seam very equal.

In response to previous posts I would argue if you apply for a job at a lower band or accept a job at lower band that's what you should get paid. That's a different situation to me though. I'm talking about equal pay for arguably me doing more work because I know what I'm doing

Gavin83

eatgarbage wrote: »

Why do they have to be of the opposite sex? I have another colleague who is female. So she could argue it and get a raise and I couldn't? Doesn't seam very equal.

Well no, she couldn't. She has to prove she receives lower pay because of her sex. The fact you are presumably on a similar wage as her and they've got a good reason as to why the other person is paid more means her case would fail. And I'd she made it official it's likely she'd be on borrowed time at the company.

You can ask. If you're as experienced and good as you suggest they should be willing to pay more to keep you there. They've no obligation to increase your salary however.