Important Notice:  Monday, May 11, 2009  should extra duties
equal more pay?  A reader writes:   Yes to the first, no to the
second.  My longer answer to this is over at U.S. News & World
Report today. Please check it out here.   HRD said...  This is
called recession proofing. Take it on, use it going forward, but
for now don't ask for a pay rise.  Anonymous said...  I have to
completely disagree. Alison Green is completely off-base here.
People get hired to do a specific job. This person was hired to
do secretarial work. Her pay is based on her role as secretary,
regardless of the type of degree she possesses.  Sure, it is
expected that she may be asked to occasionally perform tasks
somewhat outside the role of secretary. However, those should be
infrequent. And, they should not be too far from the skillset
required for a secretary.  To hire her for secretarial work and
then ask her to perform IT duties without the corresponding IT
pay is unfairly taking advantage of her skills and her
situation. Heck, if t