Pay Discrimination At Work
I have worked in a call center for about a year now. There are three of us women (over 50), who are getting ripped off..when we started, we got $9.00 an hour..and have gotten very low raises, not even a dollar an hour more, yet..The people they are hiring now are of a different ethnic group; that are starting out at higher wages, even more then we are receiving right now. There is no reason besides the fact they are of a different decent..is there anyway we can file a discrimantion law suit..it is not fair..we have to work our butts off ten times harder..this is all causing me health problems.Since I’ve worked there, my blood pressure has gone up, I have depression, and my asthma has gotten worse…Please help me..or us we would like to be treated fairly!!
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Unfortunately, it doesn’t matter how long you’ve been there or how hard you work, there is no law that says you are entitled to raises, bonuses, cost of living increases, etc, unless you have a contract.
However, there is a law that says you must get equal compensation regardless of your ethnicity. “Title VII, the ADEA, and the ADA prohibit compensation discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability.”
http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/equalcompensation.cfm
What you need to do is document what’s going on, especially one group of people getting paid more than others. Click here for a free download that will tell you how to document.
I’m an HR/Payroll Manager at a medium sized company, and I see this quite often. Mind you, I don’t determine wages, I just pay employees what the owners and managers determine is fair. However, I see new employees walking in and being offered higher starting wages than our seasoned employees, some of which have been here over ten years. I’ve pondered this and considered both a new employee with a senior one in the same position, and concluded this: Employers look at the bottom line. Therefore, XYZ Company has 50 employees and gives few or no cost of living raises, yet they have loyal employees who stay for various reasons. Over time, while other companies are giving regular cost of living increases, or earned raises, this company is not or doing so at a slower pace. New prospective employee walks in from a competitor, same skills as Mr. Smith who has been with XYX Co. for ten years, and will NOT accept a position at the wages that Mr. Smith makes. The employer hires this employee at the lowest accepted wage and hopes that Mr. Smith and all the other senior employees don’t find out. It’s simply that right now companies are competing for workers, and many really have their work cut out for them to retain good ones. They’re having to pay top dollar, and they’re certainly not going to give raises to all their other employees who have worked the position at lower wages without complaint before the new guys showed up.
This is just a personal take on what may going on. Not that it’s right, but it may NOT be the fact that you are women and over 50.
Good luck.