Q: Can an employer stop paying an hourly wage and switch u beginning next week to solely commissions.just got the news toda
My boss came in today and said starting next week I will no longer receive my hourly pay of $12 hr for 34 hrs weekly. He says starting next week Noone gets hourly nomore and will be working making commission only. He said we will get paid $100 every deal we close. Problem with that is that there's only about 12 employees and we all have weeks where no deals are made at all. The good weeks it's hard to even close 4 to 5 deals. I've only worked 1 week there where I closed 5 deals in a week and that's for most employees. We were either getting paid weekly hourly or commissions d3pending on which 1 was more. They opened this business probably beginning of this year. They have us doing high pressured sales cold calling people through a dialer. Also have us telling people information that doesn't seem true to me. The company has changed names 3 times since I've been there since June. Is it legal for them to take away wages we signed on to the job to be making?
A: Thanks and in Arkansas they can change to pay you commissions so long as you still make a minimum wage. If you work as an employee for a week and don't get paid anything, that is a minimum wage violation
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