Due to recent events at my work, my employer may revoke my salary pay and covert me to an hourly employee, and he may revoke my health benefits unless I opt to pay into them.
The reason for this change is not necessarily work performance, but rather that he feels that I don’t have the “heart and effort”. As per his words, “I’ll take someone with heart and effort over talent any day of the week.” I am a very competent worker and commit myself to the job 100%. I very rarely make a mistake, take a day off, come in late, or in any other way am a poor employee.
I’ve never had a negative performance review or report in 3.5+ years that I’ve been working for this company, so this comes at quite a surprise.
I work very hard for this company and he clearly does not understand the amount of work I undertake. I put my heart into this company and work as hard as I can to meet the workload, but occasionally I have to put off certain requests, usually work that requires a lot of man hours, (but only put it off for a few days), in order to ensure that the day to day production stays on schedule. This is what he sees as me lacking “heart, passion, effort” and more concerned with “just sales”. I sincerely do this because I want the company to prosper, knowing that the more orders we can produce will keep the company prosperous.
Does anybody know the laws in my state (NJ) and what my employer is legally allowed to do regarding my pay/medical? I’ve seen some information online that the reduction from salary to hourly would require the employer to match the salary rate, but I cannot find out if this is enforced. Also, if an employer revokes medical benefits, do they have to give a certain amount of days notice?
Thanks, and I hope this helps to prepare myself for something that may affect my finances and job security severely. If you need more information, I can edit this post and provide additional information, I’m just trying to keep some personal information private.
Please note that any statements in quotes are direct quotes from him that I have in writing.
Submitted October 14, 2018 at 11:57PM by slegauqs https://ift.tt/2En2RR3
