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BrookeF07

Junior Member
Iowa-

It all began September 2016, while I was on a 6 week medical leave from surgery. I received a phone call from my manager stating they were outsourcing my job as the Contracting Specialist to Costa Rica & the transition would begin in November. I trained my replacement through December, where she took over and I just became a resource, along with taking on a different role. The agreement when my job was outsourced was that my manager & HR would “Build” a position for me that revolved more around Data & Reporting & I would eventually transition over to a different department within my business unit. This role was created December of 2016 and progressed into strictly Data/Business Analytics up until now. Multiple times from December 2016 until today I had met with my manager on an “Update to my Job Description & Title”, because even today, I still do not have one. They continued to say they are still trying to figure out my Salary Band and hadn’t come up with a “Title” yet. It has now been over a year that I have not had a job title within Cargill, and my name in our Organizational Chart is “TBD”.





A few months ago, my manager had brought me into her office to discuss my job, and said “You need to figure something out with your position”, when the agreement had always been they would build one for me. My only other option in this company is to essentially be “Demoted” to a “Associate Customer Service Support” position significantly below my current scale & skill set. At this point, I took it upon myself to just start applying for Internal positions. When browsing through job postings on Cargill’s Intranet, I found my exact job description posted. The only difference was, it had a job title, and the Salary Band was now “Senior Professional” which is at minimum $25,000+ more than what they are paying me. So, not only was I “losing my job”, but I found out exactly what I should have been making the 13 months. Here’s where the real kicker comes…. So, I just decided to apply for this job opening because I know I was more than qualified since it’s the job I’ve been doing for over a year, and I’m the only one who does it in my company. I applied for the job, received the confirmation email saying they received my application, was sent an email requesting I take an “Aptitude Test”, which I did. I then personally emailed the hiring manager the day after I applied letting her know I had submitted my application, and I had provided her a copy of my resume with my past 2 years performance evaluations on January 9th, 2018. I finally received an email back today from the hiring manager, to my original email from January 9th mind you, saying they hadn’t received my application and that they were now done interviewing. So not only did I get pushed out for a job that I am perfect for, but essentially just lost my current position.





On top of these issues, my previous manager has made inappropriate comments in regards to my position on numerous occasions to other coworkers. For example, she had come over to my area to talk to an old supervisor that I was currently talking to, and had made a comment about me doing some “random work” for her. The person I was talking to, whom used to have her position, had said “That’s really not her job is it? I thought she did your Data & Reporting, not to do overflow”, and she had responded to him as well as the others standing around “My department pays her salary, so I can have her do whatever”. First off, to belittle me is one thing the same day you tell me I need to figure out what I’m doing about my job, but to talk about my Salary to other employees? I’m at a loss anymore.





Can you tell my your thoughts on this?
 


Taxing Matters

Overtaxed Member
Can you tell my your thoughts on this?
Sure. Your company evidently does not value you as much as you would like and your manager is not making an effort to find you a specific job in the company. Knowing that, you might want to consider finding work at another company that might value you more and pay you at least what you are making now.

But nothing you stated suggests that the company has done anything illegal. No federal or state law sets out details of how a company is supposed to fill jobs, requires that a company give you a job title, that a company pay you what it says in a job announcement it will pay for a job that is similar to the one you are doing, or prohibits the employer from belittling you or discussing your salary with whomever it pleases. Certainly good management principles would say your employer ought not do some of those things, but the law doesn’t require an employer to follow good management principles.

The company can have you do whatever tasks it needs you to do and pay you whatever pay it is willing to offer (so long as that is at least minimum wage) so long as it is not treating you differently from other employees because of some protected characteristic. Under federal law that means it is illegal if the company is treating you differently from other employees because of your race, color, national origin, citizenship, religion, sex, age (if you are at least age 40), disability, or genetic test information. Under Iowa law it is illegal for the company to treat you differently because of your race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, or disability. So, unless the company is paying you less or refusing to give you a job title because of one of those reasons the company is not violating the law. The reasons for why the company is doing what it is doing may be stupid, but if it not one of the reasons listed it is not illegal.

The bottom line here is that so far you have not described anything that the employer has done which is illegal. You basically have a problem that the company is just not treating you like you think it should. It is up to you to decide whether to stay working for that company or part ways and find work elsewhere.
 

HRZ

Senior Member
Nothing you post suggests any illegal steps ...and even if the job was grade do a band around 60k and you were being paid $40k and fully qualified etc...that's not illegal.

IF applications were "lost" along race , sex, age lines it might be a different story. ...but that is not what you post.
 

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