Legal Question in Employment Law in Virginia

Say you have been working for a company that pays you an hourly rate and makes you schedule yourself 45 hours with an hour lunch;which makes you productive of 40 hours a week. If you go on vacation: they take 40 hours from your staff. If you take a holiday: thay take 8 hours away from your staff. All along they consider you salary; so you dont have the right nor the choice to join the union.Due to being quote salary.( a clitch i call it)Even on your check week after week states hourly rate and 40 hours worked. After six years of service, now they want to lower my rate and make me work five extra hours to equal the rate i was getting. In return, would be scheduling to work a ten hour day with one hour lunch. Is this even possible? Shouldnt a (grandfather)clause be in effect? Any laws or rights broken?

Then i wonder? why they stop at 45 hours? or six years from now, whats stopping them to add five more hours?


Asked on 9/30/09, 3:10 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Michael Hendrickson Law Office Michael E. Hendrickson

Unless you're working under the protection of a contract or union collective bargaining type of agreement which would prohibit these arrangements, I see nothing legally amiss on the part of your employer in what you've described.

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Answered on 10/05/09, 4:43 pm


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