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He could call his state's wage and hour division of the department of labor, but in the absence of a union or any sort of written contract, I strongly suspect that as long as this employer paid him at least minimum wage for the hours worked, he wouldn't even have a case in small claims court. It doesn't matter if every other engineer, brain surgeon, whatever, got paid more than $10 an hour, and the person would never have accepted the job at $10 per hour, the fact is, he worked there, and the man got a few weeks of work out of him (how quick he caught on is reflected by how long he actually performed the work) and according to wage and hour, at least minimum wage for all the hours he actually worked would be the only labor law that applied.
In unemployment, if you quit a job after finding out you were only being paid $10 when you were promised $20, you'd have to do it very quickly after you got that first paycheck, or it would appear that you had accepted the terms of the job, including the pay rate. They'd determine whether you made a good faith effort to resolve the problem, as in, first paycheck, "Hey, this is wrong!" and if they don't very quickly present you with a corrected check for the agreed upon amount, then you need to get out of there, or it's going to appear to unemployment that you were okay with being paid $10 per hour.
In unemployment, if you quit a job after finding out you were only being paid $10 when you were promised $20, you'd have to do it very quickly after you got that first paycheck, or it would appear that you had accepted the terms of the job, including the pay rate. They'd determine whether you made a good faith effort to resolve the problem, as in, first paycheck, "Hey, this is wrong!" and if they don't very quickly present you with a corrected check for the agreed upon amount, then you need to get out of there, or it's going to appear to unemployment that you were okay with being paid $10 per hour.