Country: United Kingdom

Make sure the job is paid fairly for the job you are doing not the type of job you are in. Even though i am still quite highly paid for a Customer Services job i find that my pay is equal to the skills involved. Our job is now undergoing a pay cut and the work is not being reflected in this.

I would rather work stress free at 12,000 a year than overworked and overstressed at 20,000.

It is sensible to be paid to the level of work you are doing not what someone else has decided you should work for. Never settle for something just because it looks fair from the outside, it is not always so.

My job as caretaker is very physically hard, as it involves setting up and taking down folding tables and chairs for various functions. This is a seven day a week job, with split shifts. I do not believe that the job should be seven days a week anyway, but I also feel that the secretarial staff, whose jobs are the usual office hours, and whose work is not very taxing, should not be paid £1 per hour more than me. My hours are mostly either early in the morning or late afternoon/evening.

I work as a casual helper in a charity store. Started as a vounteer but then the manager went off on maternity leave, and I was asked to step in temporarily, no experience, but I learned on the job with help from the area manager, then I was given a casual contract with pay at 5.78 an hour, however I am entitled to no holidays, and my workload is 37 per week, I must also step in when people don't turn up, I do the books, set the targets, interview volunteers, advise volunteers, work out monthly figures, do the till, do the stock, bank the money, and I open up, so I don't think that is fair pay.

I work with men and women, some of my colleagues do the same job as me, yet we are all payed differently. The company says this is due to experience and how long people have worked here.

I know this isn't true, myself and a male colleague (I'm female) do the same job and he is paid more. The excuse? He has been here longer (I actually have more experience than he does in previous rolls).

On a higher level, the managment are also treated differently, the men are paid more and have other benefits like healthcare and company cars. NONE of the female managers have any of this.

For the last 2 years I have been payed less money, 12000, a year when it should be 15000 a year, as I have worked for the hospital for the last 18 years and should be on top increment. I complain about it but I am passed around different people and getting no help in sorting it out.

i'm nvq2 qualified and not sure i should still be on minium wage

Although my partner works more than the 40 hrs he gets paid for he has been told no way will they pay him the over time he starts driving at 3-39am every morning off loads somre stock to 5 vans in belfast over 97 miles away then goes on to deliver to as far away as dungannon, he owns a hgv class 1 licence among 3 others as well he works any thing up to 50 hrs depending on the runs ive told him hes entitled to pay for any hrs worked but his boss says no way .. ive heard from others that hes entitled to at leat £8.00 an hr for the unsocial hrs and hes def entitled to be paid for any hrs worked as well over the said 40 what should he do