Wife's contract with an employer/paychecks - NEED ADVISE

[SoulVein]

What is the name of your state? Arizona

hello i wondered if there is something wrong or illegal here with my wife's situation with this employer. Okay she has signed a contract that states she must work 30 days/1 month then they will hire her on permenant. But she's lately been discovering new issues with the payroll methods of how they pay, such as in the rears and more etc. Well... her work says they are holding the money from her and not going ot pay her for a whole freakin MONTH, then she'll get her paycheck. thats just causing a hardship on my wife and our daily routines of paying bills, our 9 month baby food/supplies, and car payments, incluyding GAS TO GET TO WORK TO KEEP THE JOB, lots of laughing here but its getting to be very rough now. Whats the the best advice or suggestion or methods we can take to see if the employer will pay her just part of her check NOW? She's already 3/4 thru the contract performance, and she just has about 1 week and a half to go. aNYWAYS... one last thing.. from all this she thinks she'll be deserving of a small raise on the day shes hired on.. so she's going to request for a raise. DO you think she should request in a employer- employee ettiquette fashion for a review first then a raise? usually reviews she would have to wait 3 months of working there.

Thanks so much for any and all help

 

[cbg]

Off the top of my head I don't know whether AZ permits an employer to pay employees on a monthly basis. Patty will know. It's legal in my state for exempt employees only.

She needs to keep in mind that under the law, the ONLY time an employer is REQUIRED to give her a raise is if minimum wage is raised and her wage is lower than the new m/w. There are NO circumstances in which the law requires that she be given a review.

Since we don't know her employer, we have no way of knowing if they will be receptive to a request for either a raise or a review. I know that if an employee of only one month's employment asked me for a raise, she'd go down in my book as someone to be watched as a potential troublemaker unless there had been SIGNIFICANT changes to her job description during that month. I'd be far more receptive to a request for a review but unless that review showed that she walked on water, a subsequent request for a raise would also be looked at askance. The fact that she doesn't like the payroll methods does not mean she's entitled to be paid more.

 

[pattytx]

Off the top of my head I don't know whether AZ permits an employer to pay employees on a monthly basis. Patty will know. It's legal in my state for exempt employees only.

It's the same in Arizona.

 

[Gadfly]

This story is just way too strange.

Are you sure she really has job and is going to work?

It this a "contract" or an "employement agreement?"

What does the document say about pay dates? If it says nothing, did she ask about them when she accepted?