I really would like some advice. I have been a nurse for 31 years. I have been in the same job for 19 years, in a nursing home in a very small town in Florida.
I have an excellent reputation among my fellow workers and with the patients and family members.
I got my eval yesterday, (7 months after it was due!!) The eval was done by the DON who rarely ever comes to the halls where we work and truly doesn't know much about how we do our jobs.
She gave me average on nearly all sections. Then she recommended I get a 3% raise. Of course, it is a very long story, impossible to completely tell here, but I promise you, I am not an "average" nurse! Most especially when compared to the performance of the majority of our other nurses.
My RN supervisor vehemently disagreed with the eval and said that she would be willing to tell the administrator so. The same DON recommended other nurses for a 4% raise.
As I said, this is a small town and people can be very petty when you disagree with them.
Any suggestions on what I should do? By the way, she was in such a hurry to get my eval done that she filled in my section on "self-eval" too!
Thank you crissrn27. You stole the words right out of my mouth. In the early 1970s I was working as a Nurse's Aide (almost said CNA but there was not such thing back then)
My employer would give nickel raises (even then a nickel was NOTHING). They told me never to discuss money with with anyone "because it would create jealousy as I was making more than other aids and getting raises that they were not. (I came to the job after almost finishing nursing school.
I was told it was never appropriate to discuss money.
Later I learned everyone else was also being told not to discuss money. Then I learned that they were making the same as me getting the same nickel raises.
She appealed to me with flattery and it worked. She wanted me to believe I was special and to treasure the recognition and raises that only I was getting. Essential the message was: I was to take those nickel raises and tbecause I was the only one getting it so I should not complain.
At other times employers have told people not to discuss salary and or raises. Because there were discrepancies between what people made.
It is illegal to forbid discussing this. I do not know when this law first came into being.
Your employer needs to understand lack of transparency automatically makes them suspect of unfair labor practices.
You might file a complaint with the local labor board that your boss is telling you that discussing raises "should be a fireable offense." And that there are discrepancies.
Anyone who does an eval should not be recommending the amount of a raise. All they really should (maybe this is law too) be recommending is that there be a raise. They can not recommend that no raise be given.
I have had evaluators themselves tell me this. I suspect this is a law as well.
In the past 10 years many interviewers do not even discuss salary. The refer you to HR because there is too big a chance that if they offer you X it may or may not create a discrepancy. So they they leave salary and salary negotiation to HR.
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Thank you crissrn27. You stole the words right out of my mouth. In the early 1970s I was working as a Nurse's Aide (almost said CNA but there was not such thing back then)
My employer would give nickel raises (even then a nickel was NOTHING). They told me never to discuss money with with anyone "because it would create jealousy as I was making more than other aids and getting raises that they were not. (I came to the job after almost finishing nursing school.
I was told it was never appropriate to discuss money.
Later I learned everyone else was also being told not to discuss money. Then I learned that they were making the same as me getting the same nickel raises.
She appealed to me with flattery and it worked. She wanted me to believe I was special and to treasure the recognition and raises that only I was getting. Essential the message was: I was to take those nickel raises and tbecause I was the only one getting it so I should not complain.
At other times employers have told people not to discuss salary and or raises. Because there were discrepancies between what people made.
It is illegal to forbid discussing this. I do not know when this law first came into being.
Your employer needs to understand lack of transparency automatically makes them suspect of unfair labor practices.
You might file a complaint with the local labor board that your boss is telling you that discussing raises "should be a fireable offense." And that there are discrepancies.
Anyone who does an eval should not be recommending the amount of a raise. All they really should (maybe this is law too) be recommending is that there be a raise. They can not recommend that no raise be given.
I have had evaluators themselves tell me this. I suspect this is a law as well.
In the past 10 years many interviewers do not even discuss salary. The refer you to HR because there is too big a chance that if they offer you X it may or may not create a discrepancy. So they they leave salary and salary negotiation to HR.