Legal Question in Employment Law in South Carolina
Lowering of employee's wages due to illness.
Can an employer lower wages on a salary base employee and always demote them to an hourly employee without written or verbal notice. This happened to my daughter, not once, but twice in the past year and I believe it was due in fact to her problem delivery of her baby and the next time was due to a hospital stay.
If you have any answers on how I may help her pursue this injustice.
Thank you
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: Lowering of employee's wages due to illness.
South Carolina has a Wage Notification Statute which prohibits an employer from reducing a person's wages without 7 days prior written notice. An employee whose wages are reduced without prior written notice may be entitled to 3 times the amount of the unpaid wages plus attorney's fees. The employee must object to the reduction and file suit within 3 years.
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