Pittsburgh, PA asked in Employment Law for Pennsylvania

Q: In PA, can the business owner make my bonus and profit sharing part of my salary in lieu of a raise? But not for others?

Instead of giving me a raise, my employer told me my bonus and profit sharing would be my total payroll. Everyone else in the company gets their payroll plus bonus and profit sharing. Now the company didn't make as much money as he anticipated in the last 6 months, so my "salary" is significantly less than he thought it would be. Is it legal for him to single me out in this way?

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Peter N. Munsing
Peter N. Munsing
Answered
  • Wyomissing, PA
  • Licensed in Pennsylvania

A: You have no right to a raise absent a union contract or employment contract.you say the others get payroll plus bonus and profit sharing --are you saying now you are getting bonus and profit sharing but no pay?

If the first one, I don't see a wage hour case; in second one could have a wage hour case

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