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I trained a new employee.

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I trained a new employee. I was asked by a manger and she said I could put in for a preceptor differential. I trained the new employee for 2 weeks. I was sent an email regarding my time card that I couldn’t get paid for training because I wasn’t a preceptor. I have trained others before and got the differential pay for preceptor. I was told that as of 1/1/25 you had to take a course and and can only be paid to train if I took the course. Apparently the manager who said I can put in for preceptor wasn’t aware of the policy change either. I work in a community health center. In an urgent care. It’s so busy in that dept and it takes a lot to train someone in that dept and now I’m not going to be paid for that. Any advise? Or take it as a loss?

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  1. Anonymous

    Let your boss go to bat for you. How was the new policy communicated to employees that it was changing?

  2. Anonymous

    It wasn’t communicated to anyone. It happened to my co worker too we trained the same person. When I told her I wasn’t paid and I wasn’t going to get paid they asked her and she said no. The next week they made it mandatory for a few people from each dept. to take a preceptor course.

  3. Anonymous

    Why are you responsible for trouble shooting this? As the other poster said, I'd be leaning HARD on your boss to get you this differential pay.

  4. Anonymous

    Make sure you sign up to take the next offering of the required course, and then let your manager handle whether or not you get paid the differential now. Did you have to work extra hours to train this person, and were you paid the hourly rate for those - or - are you salaried, and that is the reason for the differential? Are there licensing regulations involved that may have changed at the beginning of the year?

  5. Anonymous

    I just took it as a loss and a lesson learned. I did ask about courses and then the week after they made it mandatory that a few people from each dept take a preceptor course.

  6. Anonymous

    Was there communication regarding the change that you missed? How should you have known about the change? If it was a "miss" on your part, own it, take the course and see if your boss can put you in for some sort of "above and beyond" bonus; if not in real money, maybe in off the books PTO. If it wasn't a miss on your part, if the organization used waterfall verbal communication to communicate the change, that's on your boss and they need to own it. However, it may cost your boss to do so, and it would depend on how "safe" your culture is.

  7. Anonymous

    It wasn’t communicated to anyone but the ones who denied me the pay. I emailed about it and she stated that they will make sure management knows for the future, and then all of a sudden they have mandatory preceptor courses for a few people from each dept to take.

  8. Anonymous

    It was a manager who told me I could put in for that pay when she asked me to train. So she didn’t know about the new rule that started on 1/1/25 either. It was the 16th then the told me they were going to deny the pay. I was asked to precept on the 9th.

  9. Anonymous

    First, take the course, to be sure your precepting was aligned with what’s outlined in the course. If so, consider something along the lines of “ i’m writing to make you aware of a situation I’m caught in the middle of. New rules for precepting went into place January 1. Without knowing these new rules, my supervisor asked and I agreed to precept someone January 16. I worked very hard at the precepting role, and it aligns with all of the work outlined in the course. However, since I wasn’t aware of the requirement that I take the course, I didn’t. Given that the work I did is aligned with the contents of the course, and especially because neither I nor my supervisor were aware the course was required, I’m calling this to your attention in hopes that you will do what I feel is the right thing and reward me in some way for the extra precepting work that I did. Please note I took the course once I was aware of the requirement.” Not knowing how much money is involved, it’s hard to know whether it would be worth it.

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