Are Salaried Exempt Managers Entitled to Full Pay Regardless of Hours Worked, Even If Their Hours Are Cut in Half Without Formal Notice or Documentation?
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When exactly were you notified that your pay was being cut in half?From what date was your pay actually cut in half? What is your new effective salary, post pay cut?
In general, your employer can cut your pay to any level above minimum wage at any time, but can’t retroactively lower your wages for time already worked. Also, being exempt is only possible if your salary is above certain levels, the details of which depend on your state, which you didn’t give.
Also, your employer is blatantly in extreme financial duress, so you should start looking for a new job yesterday regardless of whether this pay cut was legal.
Did he inform you of the change in pay, or just the change in hours?
You can probably get a pay period or two out of it, but as an employee you have an obligation to check to ensure your pay is correct and notify your employer within a reasonable timeframe if it is not. 9 weeks s definitely not a reasonable timeframe.
NAL: No comment on the legal stuff, but the having your business match a federal contract compliant time system may not be a law, but it is a requirement for many contracts. I don’t know the legal in and outs, but having been a contractor when my company made a time keeping switch to be eligible for more contracts, this is what was explained to us. Even employees not on the contracts had to use the time system.Â
Time to file for partial unemployment
Talk to your states labor board,
Have you been working 20 hours a week since, or 40?