wage change

[domino7969]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Wisconsin. I received my paycheck and noticed that i was being payed a dollar less per hour than what i was hired for. I was told that my employer had decided to change my pay rate and my job designation from the one i had been hired for.Im still doing the same job but am now being payed less.Is that legal?i was given no notice until i opened my check and have been at this job for over a year.and i am the only one at the job that employer has lowered the wage on.My coworkers and i used to make the same rate now im making less.

[eerelations]

Employers may reduce their employees' wage rates anytime, as long as that wage rate doesn't go below statutory minimum wage level. What employers can't do is reduce wage rates for time already worked.

So while you won't be able to get your original wage rate back for work going forward, you can get the difference between your original wage rate and your current reduced rate for all the time you've already worked that's been paid at the reduced rate. To do this, file a claim with your state DOL.

(And before you ask, no, your coworkers' wage rates are irrelevant to this situation.)

[joe-the-rag-man]

Originally Posted by domino7969

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Wisconsin. I received my paycheck and noticed that i was being payed a dollar less per hour than what i was hired for. I was told that my employer had decided to change my pay rate and my job designation from the one i had been hired for.Im still doing the same job but am now being payed less.Is that legal?i was given no notice until i opened my check and have been at this job for over a year.and i am the only one at the job that employer has lowered the wage on.My coworkers and i used to make the same rate now im making less.

They want you to quit.

[eerelations]

Originally Posted by joe-the-rag-man

They want you to quit.

Why on earth would they go to all the trouble of reducing his wages illegally when they could quite legally fire him on the spot for no reason whatsoever?

And anyway, how do you know they're trying to make him quit? People come here for sound and accurate legal advice, not for bogus crystal ball-gazing...and without any evidence to the contrary, the OP must have come here for the same reason everyone else does.

[ecmst12]

Because if they fire him for no reason, then he gets UC. If he quits, he won't.