Job Discussion Forums

[basiltherat]

here's the scenario.

you sign a contract with an organisation to teach x number of hours or days over a period of a month at y pay.

when you join the organization, you are consistently assigned and paid exactly what you signed up to do and receive.

however, you notice that colleagues who signed up to the identical deal as yours are invariably and frequently assigned lesser workloads but paid the same as you are.

do you make an issue of it ?

my view is that one should not ........... simply bcause you are doing what you signed up to and that is all that is important. what anyone else is doing is irrelevant and of no concern to you.

any other or opposing views ?

best
basil

[Sashadroogie]

Labourers in the vineyard. No real cause for complaint. Doesn't stop us whinging though.

[denise]

If you signed the contract and are only doing what is in the contract, then I really can't see making an issue of it. It might not be fair, and I've been in situations where different nationalities & different passport holders had different rates of pay, different workloads, etc. (I usually end up on the better end of those raw deals... something about being a white-skinned American), but if everyone signed their contracts then really the only thing to do is to resign if it becomes a problem.

d

[Glenski]

I wouldn't make an issue of it right away. Do some recon work and sniff around to see why those people are getting a better deal.

1) They may have been there longer.
2) They may have other duties you don't know about.
3) You may be getting primed to take over for far more hours than they do, as a result of them leaving or some other reason.

If it persists and is still doesn't seem fair, it wouldn't hurt to ask the boss, perhaps even inkle for a raise.

[bdbarnett1]

"Don't count the other guy's money"

But next contract you can always renegotiate.