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Can an employer threaten to cut your hours?
I work in a national discount retailer. I am on flexible hours, from 8 to 16 a week. (I usually get 16).
However, the employer keeps threatening to cut my, and others, hours over the smallest things.
I've been there for four months. On my tenth week I was late for the first time, by 15 mins. When I apologized, I was told "If you don't bother coming in on time, I'll give your hours to someone who will"
4 months in I was asked to work 27 hours. I told her I could only work 24 hours per week, as agreed during my job interview prior to accepting the job. She then said since I wasn't fully flexible she would drop me down to 8 hours a week permanently.
Is this kind of behavior allowed in business. Can you constantly hold people hours to ransom and threaten to cut them any time they inconvenience you.
Ok, I'm getting answers that say yeah they can. I understand they can threaten to cut your hours, but can they consistently use it as a first resort to every problem.
it's more the behaviour I'm asking about. The constant threats, rather than the actual action
10 Answers
- Valleycat1Lv 76 years ago
Yes they can. And they can fire you for any reason too. This is why workers started forming unions and why some people actually sign a contract. At this point you are part time working for an 'at-will' employer so they can adjust or do away with your job anytime they want.
- TheRealLv 66 years ago
Yes... It makes no difference if you were late once a week, or late once in four months. Don't be late, and you have nothing to worry about. You're a part-time employee. If you can't be flexible, and on time, why would they keep you employed long enough to have any kind of seniority? They can hire a better employee, and cut your hours until you quit, and you would have absolutely no legal recourse.
- Anonymous6 years ago
They can do whatever they want. You seem to have issues getting the clue, hence the repeating of the clue. They will either drop your hours - can't say you haven't been warned - or fire you.
You can also look at it another way: your employer is giving you many chances, and you insist on fvcking up those chances.
- StephenWeinsteinLv 76 years ago
Yes, they can consistently use it as a first resort to anything for which they can do anything. They can't do it based on race, religion, etc., because they can't do anything for those things. But for any problem for which they can do anything, they can threaten to cut your hours.
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- MordentLv 76 years ago
If you are on an 8 hour contract then they are perfectly entitled to do this - they're not obligated to let you work for more than what your contract states. If you don't like it join a union, leave or suck it up.
*Well of course they SHOULDN'T do it, it's poor management.
- MaxiLv 76 years ago
The answer is yes and it is the sign of bad management to use threats in this way, untrained, un qualified management who lack any experience, motivational or people skills...... look for another job while you continue to work for this employer
- esim345Lv 76 years ago
"can they consistently use it as a first resort to every problem."
Yes. If you don't like the way your employer treats you, then quit.
