Can the employer cut the persons salary down to an hourly rate of pay, which would be less pay than their salary was from the date of hire?And increase their hours per week. Can they do this in the state of Arkansas, Benton county?
2007-09-18 08:28:25 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Yes, unless you have a valid and sound contract.
2007-09-18 08:36:54 · answer #1 · answered by Nothingusefullearnedinschool 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am an office manager for a construction company, and yes, it can be done unless you have a contract with your employer.
Even if your hourly rate is less than your salary, with the extra hours of over time, you might actually make more in the long run.
You will just have to sit down and figure it all out for yourself and decide on what you want to do and if the extra hours away from your family will be worth it. The only thing you can do if you don't like it, is to find yourself another job.
Sorry, good luck..
2007-09-18 08:40:36 · answer #2 · answered by ganjagoddess2006 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes they can. If you were on salary and now are hourly and your hours are increased you had a great job. Will your overtime make up the difference? Arkansas is a right to work state. They can pretty much do what they want unless you were under contract. Not likely here in Arkansas.
2007-09-18 08:40:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In reality he/she/they/it can do whatever he/she/they/it feel they can. However in reality you also have recourses depending on you industry. But for most salaried positions this little trick will work. Get paper work together of hours pay and all that good stuff, if you happen to have any in office memos/emails that detail this unfair change and take them dirrectly to the supervisor above the person in charge of making those changes, lay it out let he/she/they/it know that you know whats going on. But before doing this contact someone a lawyer preferably better yet a comapny lawyer and ask around about the laws where you live because things like this vary from state to state. I have had to do this a severla jobs in the past for various issues and I always got a favorable response. hope it helps.
2007-09-18 08:41:57 · answer #4 · answered by trullyandutterly 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do they have a contract stating they will be salaried at a certain pay rate? If not, then the employer can do this. Sucks don't it? Just have to find a new job.
2007-09-18 08:35:59 · answer #5 · answered by Michael C 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i might take the $2 paycut. you will keep that throughout gasoline, upkeep on your motor vehicle, and seem at for all time beyond regulation you will have at abode. helpful. I no longer in user-friendly terms took a paycut, yet in user-friendly terms paintings 25 hrs each week. yet, I walk to paintings. final month I filled my gasoline tank as quickly as, insterad of two times each week when I worked finished time and had an hour holiday. even nevertheless my paycheck is way less, i myself make a similar money because of the fact i've got not got the gasoline bill and depressing holiday. i'm a lot happier now.
2016-10-19 00:26:54 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unless you are in a union with a collective bargaining agreement, or you have a contract with the employer, then yes they can. it sucks, but thats the way that the US works. youll probably need to get a new job, or just accept the changes.
2007-09-18 08:37:30 · answer #7 · answered by Josh W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is what you can do. Get a another job and do not give them no type of notices let them train the next person for that
job.
2007-09-18 08:44:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋