Re: Is this legal?

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Unless he's in a union, then, there's probably nothing
illegal about it.

And, what makes you think it would not be legal? A private
employer not using union labor can pretty much fire/hire
whoever they want as long as it does not base its business
decision on race, creed, color, gender, national origin etc.

On 6/04/09, Ana wrote:
> Is it illegal for a company to let go of a certail group
> of employees (whom got paid hourly), then have another
> group of employees (who get paid commision) do their job
> PLUS the job of those whom got let go and not get paid for
> that?
>
> This is happening to my husband. He works at a furniture
> warehouse. His job is to assemble furniture. He receives
> commision on the amount of furniture he builds. He goes in
> at 6am and until around 12pm they "run" the furniture
> which was the job of the employees who were getting paid
> hourly. So for the work he does those first hours they do
> not get paid for. Is this legal?