My wife works at a public library. She has received nothing but outstanding performance reviews. Over the past two years, she has received a raise of 13 cents(per hour) a year, which comes out to about 1.3 percent. Another employee she works with has worked there for 15 years and is only making 75 cents more than the current starting wage. An employee just quit, and her job is posted at a higher salary for the new employee than my wife makes after 2 years. Is any of this ethical and is there anything my wife can do? Other than look for a new job.
2007-03-02 01:26:24 · 7 answers · asked by theatreguy 1 in Business & Finance ➔ Careers & Employment
Well, she can outright ask, in writing with copies to the appropriate parties.
But consider it the trend. The cost of EVERYTHING has gone up over the past two years. Housing has seemingly doubled, the cost of milk at walmart is nearly FOUR DOLLARS a gallon! I know wm prices, and they have all gone up.
My dh works for the governement, and he has been all but begging for a raise for years and years. He gets 100 percent perfect reviews, every single time. He gets 'atta boys' all the time from high ranking officials. He has officially saved the government thousands and thousands and tousands of dollars, all in an effort to get a raise or a better position. Of course, no one works for free, we all work to pay bills. So to want more money, to work hard for it, we expect pay for it.
Atta boys and good reviews don't pay rent or the hospital or doctors office, or walmart.
2007-03-02 01:33:36 · answer #1 · answered by WriterMom 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Apply for the vacated job. If your wife is good then her chances of getting it is better than that of an outsider. Getting a raise or promotion has a lot to do on how one relates to our immediate bosses...I won't paint a picture, read between the lines.
Compensation in the public service is now performance based. I sensed from your description a disconnect between actual performance and performance reviews. That's a departmental issue...nothing you can do unless it relates to discrimination issues.
2007-03-02 01:49:07 · answer #2 · answered by McDreamy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is nothing she can do except express her concerns with management. They have no reason to pay extra as long as they believe they can keep labor at the current wages.
I too worked for a company which paid me the same--after 5 years--what they were giving new hires. And this was after raises! The problem was solved when I quit, because they had no reason to pay me more than the minimal amount they could get away with.
2007-03-02 01:41:09 · answer #3 · answered by Naz smith 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There may be criterias that your wife did not meet. For example, what's her qualification? How did her supervisor rated her performance? Unfortunately, in today's working world things are never fair. The word fair applies only for the weather.
2007-03-02 01:42:45 · answer #4 · answered by SGElite 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Search for other employment.
2007-03-02 01:33:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
be happy she gets them at all. I haven't had one in three years.
2007-03-02 01:34:01 · answer #6 · answered by The Atomic Punk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to the labour dept.
2007-03-02 01:49:02 · answer #7 · answered by hum k 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋