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thegentleman · 05-08-2012, 11:00 PM

I don't know much about the labour laws here (next to nothing) but as a concerned/angry worker, it's been about a year and a half since the company I work for have given its employees a raise (November 2010). Apparently, this is due to the fact that our company has been bought out by another bigger company. (We are an International Marine Safety Company) And the process of transferring ownerships and all that happened around the same time we get our yearly raises (Usually at the end of our fiscal year of October/November)

In February, in a company meeting, a question was raised to our General Manager about when we should be expecting raises. He replied with sometime in April. He is currently out of the country due to the fact he has to deal with matters from the company who bought us out. So he travels frequently.

I'm especially choked, because for the past 4 months I've been busting my ass off doing 3 times the work/3 times the responsibility I would normally do, I was going to ask for a raise then (Around March) but was advised by my supervisor to wait until April for the raise AND THEN complain and ask for another one. I'm just wondering if there is someway, some loophole, us employees can get compensated for these past 7 months where we've been working the same wage. Any legal action that I could arise?

It's already May..the dollars/hours do amount up and we're getting shortchanged.

05-08-2012, 11:00 PM	#1
thegentleman Everyone wants a piece of R S... Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Alberta Posts: 371 Thanked 82 Times in 27 Posts Failed 11 Times in 6 Posts	Is there a way I could get compensated? I don't know much about the labour laws here (next to nothing) but as a concerned/angry worker, it's been about a year and a half since the company I work for have given its employees a raise (November 2010). Apparently, this is due to the fact that our company has been bought out by another bigger company. (We are an International Marine Safety Company) And the process of transferring ownerships and all that happened around the same time we get our yearly raises (Usually at the end of our fiscal year of October/November) In February, in a company meeting, a question was raised to our General Manager about when we should be expecting raises. He replied with sometime in April. He is currently out of the country due to the fact he has to deal with matters from the company who bought us out. So he travels frequently. I'm especially choked, because for the past 4 months I've been busting my ass off doing 3 times the work/3 times the responsibility I would normally do, I was going to ask for a raise then (Around March) but was advised by my supervisor to wait until April for the raise AND THEN complain and ask for another one. I'm just wondering if there is someway, some loophole, us employees can get compensated for these past 7 months where we've been working the same wage. Any legal action that I could arise? It's already May..the dollars/hours do amount up and we're getting shortchanged.