On Obtaining Appropriate Compensation...

wpc4 asks: "I've been working at my current place of employment in California for going on 2.5 years. I work for a rather big HMO providing IT support for over 2000 users. In my time there I have had no negative feedback, I am the "go to" for the department, I have improved our service area's image to other IT departments in our organization, had one promotion, and so forth. I am currently making over $5k less than the minimum for my title, while some new employees just got hired with the same title and lesser skills as myself and were hired on at over 30% more than I make, yet I have 2.5 years of seniority. Since I'm not union I don't appear to have any way of trying to get myself compensated appropriately, is there anything in the California labor laws that I can pull into play? Any suggestions at all before I look for other employment?"

Comments

Re:Hint at temptations

[BitGeek]

Ah, gotta love that government "Service"! Creating poverty wherever it touches. Minimum wage creates unemployment. Lets tax the poor people %50 of their income so we can under fund programs that might give them %5 of their taxes back when they can no longer make ends meet!

How bright do you have to be to realize that letting them keep the money in the first place would leave them better off? Or that letting the wealtheir people keep the money would also leave the poor people better off? (more jobs, bigger economy, higher standard of living). Taxes can only CAUSE more poverty than they could hope to fix, and half of them are diverted to defense and other boondoggles like social security (Which gives people about %20 of their money back in retirement.)

Government is a disease masquarading as its own cure!

Re:What's wrong with our country?

[greck]

That's my problem... my fortes are technical areas, not marketing, sales, and office politics. Absolutely nothing against those disciplines--I just recognize that I suck at them, and therefore, am inclined to similar under-compensation.