Could someone give me some advice on Employment Law or the best way forward please?
Where are you located? In the United States you have no legal recourse. Your partner’s employer is trying to preserve existing jobs and avoid layoffs. Imposing a 5-10% pay cut on employEES (not employers) is sound business management for a business suffering severe losses in income. Your partner should and her fellow employees should be grateful that none of them were laid off. In the United States her employment and those of most of her colleagues is at-will which means she can have the terms of her employment changed at any time. Depending on her position, she may or may not be entitled to additional pay for working on Saturdays. Employees in management positions are generally not entitled to additional pay for extra time at work. You need to take a step back and look at what is going on in the economy around you. There are lots of people who have taken pay cuts without raises for the past 2 years due to the recession and are thankful that they still have their jobs. Regrettably ther
