This is for my husband, but I'm writing as English is his second language and writing is difficult.
We live in Georgia, and let me preface by stating I understand that Georgia is a "right to hire/fire" state. It's not the demotion that upsets me it is everything leading up to it.
In October he got hired by a franchisee who owns a few fast food stores in our area.
He was hired as a manager/shift leader. During training he was transfered to another store and told he would be the assistant GM. He was given a paper to prove income for us to rent a house in the area of the new store.
The GM is the shadiest person I have ever met and I'm not sure the district manager is any better. The GM has attempted to write him up and he has fought each one, only one stayed on his record.
On the day of his end of training evaluation he came in on a day off and the GM refused to do it and said he needed to go to the bank. At the time my husband was in between renewing licenses and I was driving him. I drove up an hour after that to pick him up and he had to wait for another manager to come to the store to leave on his day off. We ran to the bank (the only one in town) and say the GM just pulling up for his deposit errand he claimed he went on an hour before.
He was told so many things that his job required him to do based on "contract" but he never signed anything other than hiring paperwork. He asked for a copy of this supposed contract and they refused. He asked for a copy of his employee handbook and they refused.
He was scheduled over 40 hours a week. They (both GM and district) claimed that he was contracted as an excempt salary employee and he would not be getting overtime. He had no way to clock in or out to prove his hours on paper. He has no access to his paystubs because it is online and they "are having problems with his login info".
He started to log his hours on his own on a phone app and showed it to the owner, as well as the new law from 2016 that he would only be exempt if he made $40k+ (he does not).
Owner chewed out district, who chewed out gm, who chewed out my husband. District brought in a new manager and cut his hours.
He signed up for health insurence benefits only offered to his position. His paycheck deposit reflected a deduction but again no pays tubs. And no health insurence card delievered.
TL;DR
He was demoted last week and moved to a new store, they claimed his sales weren't good enough. His new position is hourly and he won't be scheduled enough to afford rent. They cut his health insurence and won't offer anymore because he "hasn't been there 6 months". Still no paperwork has been given as requested.
My main question: who can we report this to for a third party to evaluate if they are acting legally? Like a health department inspection but for employers. I know where we went wrong and the job isn't worth keeping. We're cutting our loses but there are some good people still in that store that are getting screwed.
We live in Georgia, and let me preface by stating I understand that Georgia is a "right to hire/fire" state. It's not the demotion that upsets me it is everything leading up to it.
In October he got hired by a franchisee who owns a few fast food stores in our area.
He was hired as a manager/shift leader. During training he was transfered to another store and told he would be the assistant GM. He was given a paper to prove income for us to rent a house in the area of the new store.
The GM is the shadiest person I have ever met and I'm not sure the district manager is any better. The GM has attempted to write him up and he has fought each one, only one stayed on his record.
On the day of his end of training evaluation he came in on a day off and the GM refused to do it and said he needed to go to the bank. At the time my husband was in between renewing licenses and I was driving him. I drove up an hour after that to pick him up and he had to wait for another manager to come to the store to leave on his day off. We ran to the bank (the only one in town) and say the GM just pulling up for his deposit errand he claimed he went on an hour before.
He was told so many things that his job required him to do based on "contract" but he never signed anything other than hiring paperwork. He asked for a copy of this supposed contract and they refused. He asked for a copy of his employee handbook and they refused.
He was scheduled over 40 hours a week. They (both GM and district) claimed that he was contracted as an excempt salary employee and he would not be getting overtime. He had no way to clock in or out to prove his hours on paper. He has no access to his paystubs because it is online and they "are having problems with his login info".
He started to log his hours on his own on a phone app and showed it to the owner, as well as the new law from 2016 that he would only be exempt if he made $40k+ (he does not).
Owner chewed out district, who chewed out gm, who chewed out my husband. District brought in a new manager and cut his hours.
He signed up for health insurence benefits only offered to his position. His paycheck deposit reflected a deduction but again no pays tubs. And no health insurence card delievered.
TL;DR
He was demoted last week and moved to a new store, they claimed his sales weren't good enough. His new position is hourly and he won't be scheduled enough to afford rent. They cut his health insurence and won't offer anymore because he "hasn't been there 6 months". Still no paperwork has been given as requested.
My main question: who can we report this to for a third party to evaluate if they are acting legally? Like a health department inspection but for employers. I know where we went wrong and the job isn't worth keeping. We're cutting our loses but there are some good people still in that store that are getting screwed.