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min wage paid by MT company - curly

Posted: Oct 14, 2013

I was told last year when I worked (briefly) for an MT company that we had to clock out if we had an out of work situation because, technically, we were employees of that company which meant we had to be paid never less than min wage. Now I find myself working for that same company again, and a bunch of us are just about to get our first production pay checks from them, and I want to know if everyone out there who is pay by production at an MT company is getting paid AT LEAST min wage? I mean, if you have a week or a pay period where you didn't do so well on the production, the company is supposed to make up the difference between the production pay and min wage (like in a restaurant -- if a server doesn't make at least min wage in wages plus tips, the restaurant by law is supposed to make up the difference). Does that happen? Has anyone been getting AT LEAST min wage every week?

They are all SUPPOSED to. - sm

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The last company that I was an employee for, NO, we didn't get minimum wage, you got what you typed. The company before that, if you had a slow week, they definitely did pay you minimum wage, if your line rate was below that, BUT they also made it clear that this wouldn't be happening on a weekly basis. The option is pick up your production or find new employment. Not sure how that could happen when they didn't have enough lines, or when they did have lines, they were horrible dictators or sound quality, which made it very, very difficult.

all i can say is they BETTER pay min wage or - curly

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i will bring a lawsuit against them. i used to work pay by production years ago, but we were all independent contractors. if i find out this company - which i have already quit, by the way - does not want to pay at least min wage, then they should make the employees independent contractors instead of employees - but when i was told that we have to clock out when we don't have any work BUT we're still supposed to be chained to our computers constantly checking to see if we have work, meaning we can go half a shift or even an entire shift without making even one cent, but we couldn't go do something else like run errands or something, i said NO WAY! there is NO WAY i'm going to be chained to my computer constantly checking to see if i have work, but they're not going to pay me at least min wage!!

Nope - my company does not - frustrated

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The company I currently work for does not, and I am sick of making $5 to $6 an hour for all the stress. :(

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