Equal pay

[blondebimbo1]

would like a bit of advice regarding where myself and my colleague stand. The company we work for has merged with another which resulted on 2 new people joining our team. We all do the same work with myself and my colleague having more responsibilities but we have just found out that the two new members of the team are on more money than us. Is there any laws about equal pay that state this in wrong.

[bednobs]

it will depend on how pay is structured where you work. For example, i work in the nhs at a "band six" level However within this band there are 7 increments (i think) which you usually go up through over the years till you are at the top of your band. Therefore i do the same job as somene else in my team (same job title and everyting) but i get more than her because she started at the bottom of the band, however when i started, as i had worked at a band six in the same organisation before i started on a higher increment. There is nothing illegal about this

[Buenchico]

Unless contractual provisions apply, every employee's contract is entirely separate to that of any other employee. (There's an exception relating to the rights of part-time staff but that doesn't seem to apply in your case).

In the City of London, there are people working alongside each other in the same office, doing the same job, where one employee might be on ten (or more) times the pay of his colleague, simply because one person joined at the bottom of the pay scale and has never pushed for more money, while his colleague has been 'head-hunted' from another company. It's perfectly legal, and long may it remain so.

Chris