Prologue
I have almost always worked on fixed salary, a salary that everybody knows how much everybody is getting and it is pretty low. Like a state salary. Kindergarten, school, a hospital etc. I worked with the Red Cross and I got a decent salary there (from a humanitarian org.) and then I went to haggling with my salary and I got screwed big time. But I learned.
What happened?
I got a new job and when I was applying for it I got the impression that the salary was fixed. Everybody would get a fair pay and it would gradually get higher. But because I had been working in a similar job then I would start higher then a new comer that had not worked in a same kind of job. It took a few weeks to get the final salary and it was OK. Not great but OK. I was satisfied. But after a few weeks of thinking I found out that it was not fixed salary, but I was satisfied with what I got.
The problem?
A co worker told me to send to him the billing hours for the extra shifts I was taking. I sent it to him and he gave a reply with the hours that I would get payed. I was surprised because he gave 5 hours for a evening shift but I had thought that I would 5,5 hours. I replied and asked about it and he said it was 5 hours. But the problem is that I know that I get 5,5 hours. I have it in a email from the accountant. He says to me that I get X for a shift and that means Y for each hour. And if I do X/Y then I get 5,5. So somebody is getting screwed.. maybe me, because if it is billed 5 hours then I get higher pay which means that my day times are higher. But If I am not getting screwed then my co-worker is getting screwed, and he has worked there for 8 years.
What should I do?
Dazlak posted on Sep 01, 2006
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silverwhisper said on Sep 01, 2006....
speak w/ accounting and say, "look, i'm is supposed to be paid for 5.5 hours. i worked the extra .5 hours and that's documented, but that isn't what happened. can we address this quickly?"
i don't understand how your co-worker gets screwed, though.
ed
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Dazlak said on Sep 01, 2006....
The problem is that we dont get payed but the hours. We have a job and we do it. If we work for an hour then still we get payed 5 hours or 5,5....
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silverwhisper said on Sep 01, 2006....
i don't understand. why are you supposed to report the number of hours at all, then?
ed
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secretlife said on Sep 01, 2006....
So then you get a 'flat rate' for a job regardless of how much time it takes to complete? And there's a differential for the night shift so you are supposed to get a higher rate?
Your immediate supervisor should know exactly what you should be getting paid and what the differences are for the shifts.
If you have a payroll or accounting dept, you could contact them with the same question.
I think that you think your co-worker has been getting underpaid?