typhoidtrish
Junior Member
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Alabama
I am a call center supervisor and over the past two years as I have watched the economy fall, I have also watched the number of reports I have fall as well. I went from having 13 direct employees to only 2. Due to the vast workload, I am expected to also perform the work of my employees as well as my supervisory duties. In fact, most of my day consists of the same work as my employees.
About a year and a half ago, I found out that one of my reports made more money per hour for a 40 hour work week than I did as her salaried supervisor. I brought this up to my manager and within weeks I was asked to let her go.
About 6 months ago, everyone within our company was forced to take a 10% pay cut. I was ok with that as long as everyone was affected by this and I wanted to do all that I could for the company during this tough time.
Now it has been brought to my attention that every employee within the company (hourly & salaried) will be required to take 2 non consectutive days furlough per month throughout the end of the year. My manager suggests that I take Fridays off. I asked how we would be able to get the work done with less time and obviously less people and his response was that I would just have to work longer and harder hours the weeks my furloughs are scheduled.
This does not seem right to me. Why as a salaried employee would I want to work 40+ hours Monday - Thursday just so my salary can be docked one day for that week and only be paid "32" hours for 50+ hours of work?? His response is that I just get the job done not matter what it takes.
This has caused a lot of mental health problems for me. I have a severe case of anxiety due to the stress of my job. When I vocalize my opinions on the matter to my employer, I am always given the response " just be glad you have a job".
Is this legal? What do I need to do to protect myself? Please help!
I am a call center supervisor and over the past two years as I have watched the economy fall, I have also watched the number of reports I have fall as well. I went from having 13 direct employees to only 2. Due to the vast workload, I am expected to also perform the work of my employees as well as my supervisory duties. In fact, most of my day consists of the same work as my employees.
About a year and a half ago, I found out that one of my reports made more money per hour for a 40 hour work week than I did as her salaried supervisor. I brought this up to my manager and within weeks I was asked to let her go.
About 6 months ago, everyone within our company was forced to take a 10% pay cut. I was ok with that as long as everyone was affected by this and I wanted to do all that I could for the company during this tough time.
Now it has been brought to my attention that every employee within the company (hourly & salaried) will be required to take 2 non consectutive days furlough per month throughout the end of the year. My manager suggests that I take Fridays off. I asked how we would be able to get the work done with less time and obviously less people and his response was that I would just have to work longer and harder hours the weeks my furloughs are scheduled.
This does not seem right to me. Why as a salaried employee would I want to work 40+ hours Monday - Thursday just so my salary can be docked one day for that week and only be paid "32" hours for 50+ hours of work?? His response is that I just get the job done not matter what it takes.
This has caused a lot of mental health problems for me. I have a severe case of anxiety due to the stress of my job. When I vocalize my opinions on the matter to my employer, I am always given the response " just be glad you have a job".
Is this legal? What do I need to do to protect myself? Please help!
