I have worked as salary before and they added an overnight and weekend on-call portion that did not exist when I first joined the job. They initially were going to make it unpaid (since we are salaried) and it would have been covered as “Other job related duties as assigned” in our contracts. Luckily we ended up causing a stink about it and got compensation for it (though I personally would have preferred no on-call regardless of the compensation).
But it got me thinking… how do you combat that as a salaried position? When work creep starts coming in. Initially it is doing a certain number of tasks… but then a new policy comes in and we have to add on an additional task… and then a little later they have another idea for something else you have to do on top of all the other tasks… and they always cite “Well you agreed to other job related duties as assigned.”
I know this also isn't exclusively salaried jobs, but that has been my experience of it. I know at that job the hourly positions also ran into that when given more tasks to complete in the same amount of time with no overtime allowed.
What are your strategies for fighting this with management?