Legal or illegal?
I was at my job for about 2 months but in that short time I really impressed my Gm and during the holidays a lot of people did no call no shows and we're fired so my job was low on employees. My Gm asked if I would want to be a manager I said yes and he updated my restrictions in the system so that I had manager access for things such as the safe for shift changes and the cash drawer for shift changes or returns and things like that that only a manager could do and not a regular employee. I wasn't trained like most managers because of the short handed staff we had because of the holidays as I mentioned so I instantly had my own shift to run and had to learn as I went if I ran into something I couldn't do I had to call the help desk and try and figure it out with them. Anyway I learned quick and had no problems running my own shifts and got my gm out of a tuff spot and gave him time to hire new employees. But I was to keep my shifts and stay manager but hadn't received my raise. The minimum a manager makes was a dollar more then what I was making. My boss told me he had to get it approved threw corporate but that I would get my raise soon. Well I ran my own shifts as manager for 6 weeks before I told my boss what's going on with my raise. By then he had hired new employees and new managers and could get my shifts covered so he put me on a different shift where I was not the manager and told me it was just for a week or 2 till I get my raise and then I would get my own shifts again. He said he was doing it to be fair to me and so that I wouldn't have more responsibility on my shifts that I wasn't getting paid for and that once it got fixed I would even get back pay for the 6 weeks I worked as manager and didn't get paid as one. Well before I got my raise I was fired for calling and saying I was gonna be an hour late because my son was hurt at school during recess and had to pick him up. I just received my last check and it did not have my back pay for the 6 weeks I was a manager and did not get paid as one. Is that legal or is there something I can do about it?
My though is your manager was inexpensiveness and made a crazy error which NEWBIES do is to give an employee a move up without getting corporate approval. The manager want to put you up but did not get approval which left him moving others up because his superior told him what to do and it was not clear that you had been moved up. not good . your supervisor was now in a bad spot and not wanting to keep an unhappy employee on staff and keep you on as a reminder of his screw up when there was an opportunity you got axed,
You might send a registered letter to corporate HR, . You might address this with WAGES and Hours from your State government for the differential promised and work done..
Unless you have his promises in writing you have little chance of prevailing in a lawsuit. My general experience is that promises at the work place are almost always worthless.
Good luck!
It might not be illegal for them to do that, but I'm willing to bet if you called corporate/HR and explain the situation to them you might be able to get the back pay you're owed. When you run a shift by yourself, you have to use your own access codes to do manager overrides and other duties. Right there is your proof that you were running shifts and not being paid for it. The reason you have to use a code is so all those things can be tracked to prevent theft from the company. Call corporate and tell them what happened, that's your best bet. Good luck!
Did you get any of that in writing? If not, it would be very difficult to prove anything.
I hate that the world has come to the place where employees/employer's relationships can't be trusted. That's a fallacy in most cases. However, In some cases an individual will overstep his boundaries and hurt the ones who rise up simply protecting himself. The odds are good your supervisor got himself in a hole and made promises he couldn't keep then in protecting himself you became a liability, he couldn't do what he promised so when you messed up instant solution. Sorry but some people are so insecure in themselves that they can't or want stand behind there decision. Tough but part of life sorry my friend but you have a moral dilemma not a legal one no contact or legal document no case. Good luck I would write my home office detailing my hrs. Pay rate explaining what transpired, but don't hold your breath cya Ronnie