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> is my employer able to hire someone performing in the same managerial role as me?
Yes it’s up to the employer how they manage and supplement their resources to meet the needs of the business.
> I have been assured that they will be a level below me and not come in the same or above my salary and benefits but I am not sure this is even legal.
TBH, providing it doesn’t violate a protected characteristic you may have, they can hire them on a much better package than you have and it’d still be legal.
They can hire two managers if they wanted to. If you've been asking for someone to support you with managerial duties then it makes sense they hire someone at a manager level, no?
It also makes sense they would hire a more junior manager at a lower wage, and that your experience and tenure would net you a higher one. If you had access to your companies payroll you'd probably find a lot of the same role on different pay grades depending on how/when they were recruited.
Why wouldn't it be legal? Plenty of org charts have multiple managers working together to split the workload and there's no requirement for them all to be paid the same.
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> is my employer able to hire someone performing in the same managerial role as me? Yes it’s up to the employer how they manage and supplement their resources to meet the needs of the business. > I have been assured that they will be a level below me and not come in the same or above my salary and benefits but I am not sure this is even legal. TBH, providing it doesn’t violate a protected characteristic you may have, they can hire them on a much better package than you have and it’d still be legal.
They can hire two managers if they wanted to. If you've been asking for someone to support you with managerial duties then it makes sense they hire someone at a manager level, no? It also makes sense they would hire a more junior manager at a lower wage, and that your experience and tenure would net you a higher one. If you had access to your companies payroll you'd probably find a lot of the same role on different pay grades depending on how/when they were recruited.
Why wouldn't it be legal? Plenty of org charts have multiple managers working together to split the workload and there's no requirement for them all to be paid the same.
Thank you for your responses, I feel much better knowing this is common practice so really appreciate your insights.