Equal Pay For The Same Job

For the last six years all sales associates were paid the same rate. Now we are all paid at different rates even though we have all been with the company the same length of time and all are equally trained. The bosses favorites are paid considerably higher than the rest of us. Is this legal?

Response from Carl: Not knowing where you live and what your local labor laws are, it's hard to comment.

Also, there are some specifics missing from your comments that would have been helpful to know. You work in a sales environment and I wonder if your actual sales results have anything to do with this decision to pay some people more money and some people less? In other words, does performance play into this decision?

Where do you rank in terms of your sales results compared to your higher paid colleagues? I would think that your bosses would have explained the move or at least given you an explanation as to why you are not earning as much as others. If not, you might have to ask them to get clarification.

Carl