Pay CUT 25%

[aephilli]

What is the name of your state? Florida
Due to on the job injury and 3 subsequent surgeries, doctor said I cannot continue at previous job (mechanic) so was moved to customer service permanantly. Problem is, my pay was cut 25% (20.00 to 15.00). Legal?

 

[moburkes]

What is the name of your state? Florida
Doctor said I cannot continue at previous job (mechanic) so was moved to customer service permanantly. Problem is, my pay was cut 25% (20.00 to 15.00). Legal?

Yes. They are not required to give you a mechanic's pay for doing a customer service job.

 

[Betty]

Yep - it's legal. It wouldn't be fair either to pay you mechanic's pay for a customer service job when the other customer service employees are only getting customer service pay.

 

[justalayman]

Man, and I was hoping since I used to be a CEO and the stress got to me and the doc told me I would have to quit that position so I am now a janitor in the same company. My pay went from 3.2 million annually to 10.37/hourly.

Just because I am doing a different job, I was hoping they would still pay me the same. Oh well.

The only thing I have to add is concerning Betty's post. Fair is not a word that gets tossed around, especially at auto dealerships (presuming from the occupations involved, it is a dealership) and there would be little wrong with continuing the $20/hr pay, if the employer wished to do so.

Employers often do not pay fairly. They often pay simply what they can get away with paying.

 

[Betty]

The only thing I have to add is concerning Betty's post. Fair is not a word that gets tossed around, especially at auto dealerships (presuming from the occupations involved, it is a dealership) and there would be little wrong with continuing the $20/hr pay, if the employer wished to do so.

Employers often do not pay fairly. They often pay simply what they can get away with paying.

I'm such a fair/honest person that not paying fairly never even crossed my mind.

 

[aephilli]

I was just kinda hoping my 14 years with the organization (city) [plus the fact that it was their equipment that malfunctioned and caused the original injury] would get me some consideration so that I would be paid at least marginally higher than the base pay that the new hires "off the street" were given.

 

[moburkes]

I was just kinda hoping my 14 years with the organization (city) [plus the fact that it was their equipment that malfunctioned and caused the original injury] would get me some consideration so that I would be paid at least marginally higher than the base pay that the new hires "off the street" were given.

Understandable. However, hope has nothing to do with the law. You can also attempt to get another job with another company. Rememeber, it doesn't even make SENSE to pay you $20/hour, when they can hire a new person at $15. And, although you are a mechanic, your cusotmer service skills might not even be all that great. What is your typing speed? What is your CSR experience? What is your computer experience, or scheduling experience, etc?

 

[aephilli]

Just to pretend I took that last personally (I didn't), I've been a mechanic for 30 years, mostly in "mom & pop" shops, where I was wrench turner, appointment scheduler, partsman, everything from "Hi, what can we do for you?" to "Here's your receipt and keys, thanks for your business." and everything in between. In the 6 months I've been "on the phones" since my transfer, I've consistently had near the highest call handled volume and customer compliment rate side by side with representatives that have been here 25 years, along with no customer complaint calls.
So, that combined with $5 will get me a small latte at starbucks, right?

 

[aephilli]

Reason for original post was someone told me that same as workman's comp pays 66%, permanant change of status could only cause 20% drop in pay. Guess they were wrong. Thanks for the replies.

 

[moburkes]

Just to pretend I took that last personally (I didn't), I've been a mechanic for 30 years, mostly in "mom & pop" shops, where I was wrench turner, appointment scheduler, partsman, everything from "Hi, what can we do for you?" to "Here's your receipt and keys, thanks for your business." and everything in between. In the 6 months I've been "on the phones" since my transfer, I've consistently had near the highest call handled volume and customer compliment rate side by side with representatives that have been here 25 years, along with no customer complaint calls.
So, that combined with $5 will get me a small latte at starbucks, right?

Right!!!!! You're learning...