Constructive termination?

[UpsideDown]

What is the name of your state? pennsylvania.

My employer has recently targeted a specific department
to restructure our pay. Regular salaried employees are
now rearranged to a commission like compensation plan.
This plan reduced our base salary to approx 25% of what
it was in 2002 and then we were placed on a "bonus" program.

The bonus program is simiar to per diem pay with a few caveats:
If we work under a certain percentage of revenue producing work
for any given month, next month's bonus pay will be reduced
by 50% as a penalty. There are also several hitches to the
plan which effectively allow our employer to take any and all
of this new bonus pay for any reason. We also have no control
over the revenue producing work we are assigned to, also
reducing our availability to regain a salary competitive with
that of last years. Many employees are now forced to quit,
and this plan strongly seems that it's designed to force us out.

What can I do? Is there some action I can take?

 

[JETX]

Regretably, unless you have a contract or are covered by a collective bargaining agreement, you are an 'at will' employee. This simply means that your employer can terminate you without any reason.

Further, though the changes you describe certainly sound like extremely poor management decision, there doesn't appear to be anything wrong.... as long as you are getting minimum wage.

Simply, your options are limited to either continuing with the job.... or quitting.