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Maternity cover pay vs experienced employee pay

Victoria

Looking for advice for a friend - genuinely !!

My friend has 18 years experience in their job and they will be finishing up on maternity leave in a couple of months. An office junior (straight out of college, no work experience and the daughter of the business owner friend) has been brought on to cover the same job whilst she is on maternity leave.

My friend found out today that the office junior will be receiving the same salary as them - the office junior had to clarify their salary on the phone and also opened the mail which contained salaries for the month (this is part of her job).

My friend is unsure whether to approach their boss about this and challenge the reasoning behind the pay situation. She is hurt and betrayed as she has worked hard to get to the salary she is now earning. I haven't come across this before and I was wondering in your experience, will challenging this have any impact on the situation?

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    They have offered this salary either because (a) they mistakenly believe it’s the rate for the job as your friend gets it and therefore need to pay it. Or (b) because they are the daughter of the owners friend and the owner wants to.

    None of this affects the salary your friend earns ( and I assume was happy with). So I agree it’s unfair but she has far bigger priorities than a teenagers salary.

    I do not believe there is a legal claim here and I do not believe complaining to the boss would have much effect  

    what result does your friend now want? The juniors salary reduced? 


    On a general point of an office junior straight out of college can do the job then it’s questionable if the 18 years experience should actually be rewarded. Sone jobs just don’t need that level of experience it should therefore reward it.

  • in reply to Keith
    Hi Keith,

    Thanks for your response and in answer to your question I'm not entirely sure what my friend is looking to getting out of approaching her boss. I was looking to see if from experience approaching the situation would have any impact.

    Thanks again

    Victoria
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