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  • Job Descriptions/Tiles and Pay

    I am hoping someone can give me some advice (and I apologise beforehand that my full stop key has broken so can't end sentences appropriately)

    I began work at a company with around 30 staff 3 years ago - I was taken on in a role that has changed beyond recognition over the past 3 years as the company has grown to around 100 employees

    Four months ago my job title and description was changed - this was done without staff consultation and we were simply told that the 10 of us with that particular job were now varying degrees of junior/exec/senior of a particular job title and associating job description (the descriptions did in fact now match the roles were were doing, with the exception that of myself and the two other 'senior' employees, I was the only person actually completing all aspects of the role)

    Wage brackets for each of these tiers were decided at the time but were not communicated to any of us and discussion of pay is a disciplinary offence - this is due to the fact that rates of pay between people doing the same job are extremely disparate (people talk even though they are not allowed to)

    Over the past 4 months people have left and remaining staff have been required to take on their jobs - this is not just more work, this is work that does not appear anywhere in the job description and requires a totally different skill set

    When approached about this matter - specifically to point out that workload and responsibilities have increased along with the skill set required to do the job as it now involves completely diffferent components - management have simply said they will have the job descriptions ammended to include all the new skills and responsibilities so they do not have to pay people any more money - I pointed out that I would then be the ONLY person to be doing all of the things on the job spec and was told "some people will do some parts and others will do other parts of the job spec but if everything is on it then everything is covered"

    Is this legal? Can an employer just keep adding things to a job description as you develop skills/take on extra responsibility so they can claim it is simply part of your job and not a promotion/different role, to avoid the issue of pay? Especially if the other people with the same job title (and thus job description) are not taking on those tasks or responsibilities?

    Thanks for your time
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    Re: Job Descriptions/Tiles and Pay

    Hi and welcome to Legalbeagles.
    Your contract of employment cannot lawfully be changed by your employer without your agreement (individually or via your union)

    That's the basic position. but our employment specialists will be along to give more detailed assistance,.
    However it is New years Eve, so they might well be busy on other things for a while, so hang on.

    Happy New Year

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    • #3
      Re: Job Descriptions/Tiles and Pay

      Short answer. No they can not change your job title, description or duties without your written and signed consent. Such things amount to core terms of your contract of employment, and they like any contractual term in any contract can not be varied without the consent of the other party. To force a variation on the other party would be a serious breach of contract and leave them open to constructive dismissal, breach of contract claims or if they discipline you for not accepting the forced new terms, that amounts to victimisation and in event of dismissal, unfair dismissal!
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      • #4
        Re: Job Descriptions/Tiles and Pay

        Thank you for the reply - so am I wrong to insist that instead of the duties being arbitrarily added to my job description (which in turn would make 2/3 of the people with my job description only be doing half the actual job, since i am the only person to be taking on the extra duties) the job be defined as a new role (since the work is not expected to be temporary) and to ask for a pay rise in light of the extra duties/workload/responsibilities?

        I hate the pay discussion - gives me the heebie jeebies since Management always act like you are a disgusting money grabbing parasite.

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        • #5
          Re: Job Descriptions/Tiles and Pay

          Just go in full of belief in yourself and take on board Teaboy's comments.
          They will be in breach of contract if they don't act properly.

          And regarding pay discussions, I always kept to the forefront of my mind the idea the only reason for working was money, the same as management (except perhaps those in the caring sector).
          If they started getting snooty, I then imagined them sitting there buck naked. Soon got over any feelings of inferiority.mashappy:
          Then I moved into management and had a different perspective:santa_wink:.

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