Legal Question in Business Law in New York

full time employment

In our company full time is 32 hours or more. I was hired as a full time Assistant Manager. I have vacation, sick time, insurance, etc.

When I was hired I was told I would not go below 32 hours a week. As of yesturday, I was told and the Associate Manager was told our hours will be cut by 10 hours each in order to hire and train 2 new part time employees. How can they take our full time away to give the Manager more payroll to hire and train other employees. Is this illegal? I need this full time hours to pay my bills. I was never told that this is something that could happen.


Asked on 3/21/08, 8:21 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Nancy Delain Delain Law Office, PLLC

Re: full time employment

This is unfortunately not illegal unless there is something in your employment agreement that guarantees you a certain number of hours per week. Employers do this because they can; it's cheaper for them to have a bunch of part-timers for whom they don't have to pay full-time benefits.

But get your lawyer to check out that employment agreement.

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Answered on 3/25/08, 3:33 pm


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