Can an employer offer wage benefits to non-umion employees while not extended the same benefits to union employees?
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Can an employer offer wage benefits to non-umion employees while not extended the same benefits to union employees?
Our company now offers night and weekend differential pay to non-union employees. The differential pay is completely new. The union employees are not offered the same benefit. Both
union and non union employees perform the same work. This feels like discrimination against the union.
Asked on April 12, 2016 under Employment Labor Law, Minnesota
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 8 years ago | Contributor
It is not discrimination against the union, any more than it is discrimination against non-union employees if union members get higher pay or more benefits. Unon and non-union workers may be treated differently. Union workers get whatever is in their union or collective bargaining contract; non-union employees may be given less, different, or better pay and benefits than union employees and that does not effect the rights of union employees. More generally, employers do not have to treat all employees the same, and can pay different people different amounts, even for same work.
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