DavianThule
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What is the name of your state? California.
I am a male coach at a college in California and have been a part of the team for 7 years. Everyone's pay is listed online. Pay has ranged from $10-$15/hr over the years for all coaches of all experience levels and degrees. Last year something changed. The head coach of the team hired his female ex-lover at a higher rate than "normal" and my rate went down. I was not told my pay decreased. Despite having the same "Short-term employee" classification that the rest of us had, she not only got paid more but was treated differently.
She was paid for just "talking" about the team. Yet my 3-hour long conversations with the head coach never got me paid. She didn't have to show up on time, didn't have to be in our group chat, didn't have to go to our coaches meetings, didn't have to go to tournaments and a lot more. The director would often leave campus to get her coffee in the middle of class.
This sparked a big investigation and I was called in by the school to explain to them my experience with all of this. This puts me under whistleblower protection and the ex-lover was fired. This year the head-coach doesn't look at me, he looks around me, and doesn't respond to me in our group chat.
He hired a new female coach this year at more than double my pay and it's even more than the ex-lover made. This new female coach has significantly less experience than I do, but does have a Masters vs my Bachelors+experience. We do 100% the same coaching job, but I actually do much more. Logistics, administration, photography, videopgraphy on top of coaching.
If all of the non-sense last year didn't happen, I would confront him about a pay raise and the unequal pay. But considering this is a delicate situation I want some advice before taking action. The head coach has been deciding pay for years but it's actually not his job to do so. The school just hasn't paid attention until now.
Job tasks I've done for years have been taken away from me this year. I have a feeling the head-coach is retaliating against me by taking away my duties and ability to make money. Our budget is suddenly tight because she is making so much money. I feel like he is paying her so much so he has an excuse to penalize me.
What do I do? I'm in the process of gathering all of my time-sheets to compare them to my pay stubs. Is this an equal pay issue? Pay discrimination? Anything?
I am a male coach at a college in California and have been a part of the team for 7 years. Everyone's pay is listed online. Pay has ranged from $10-$15/hr over the years for all coaches of all experience levels and degrees. Last year something changed. The head coach of the team hired his female ex-lover at a higher rate than "normal" and my rate went down. I was not told my pay decreased. Despite having the same "Short-term employee" classification that the rest of us had, she not only got paid more but was treated differently.
She was paid for just "talking" about the team. Yet my 3-hour long conversations with the head coach never got me paid. She didn't have to show up on time, didn't have to be in our group chat, didn't have to go to our coaches meetings, didn't have to go to tournaments and a lot more. The director would often leave campus to get her coffee in the middle of class.
This sparked a big investigation and I was called in by the school to explain to them my experience with all of this. This puts me under whistleblower protection and the ex-lover was fired. This year the head-coach doesn't look at me, he looks around me, and doesn't respond to me in our group chat.
He hired a new female coach this year at more than double my pay and it's even more than the ex-lover made. This new female coach has significantly less experience than I do, but does have a Masters vs my Bachelors+experience. We do 100% the same coaching job, but I actually do much more. Logistics, administration, photography, videopgraphy on top of coaching.
If all of the non-sense last year didn't happen, I would confront him about a pay raise and the unequal pay. But considering this is a delicate situation I want some advice before taking action. The head coach has been deciding pay for years but it's actually not his job to do so. The school just hasn't paid attention until now.
Job tasks I've done for years have been taken away from me this year. I have a feeling the head-coach is retaliating against me by taking away my duties and ability to make money. Our budget is suddenly tight because she is making so much money. I feel like he is paying her so much so he has an excuse to penalize me.
What do I do? I'm in the process of gathering all of my time-sheets to compare them to my pay stubs. Is this an equal pay issue? Pay discrimination? Anything?