First off, I work at a sandwich shop and make a pitiful $9/hr. But I have weekends off and I only need the job to pay my car insurance while I go to college so I don't really care, but I'm not really putting any extra effort in.
Anyway, lately I've been put in a position called “Float” every day. Basically, I make $9/hr until they get more deliveries than they can handle, then I become a delivery driver ($8/hr + tips). That's fine, okay, legal enough. But then there's the return – once I come back, I DON'T get to clock back in as $9/hr. They want me to stay as $8/hr and just get “pickup tips” too, as it will “make up for it”. The problem is barely any pickups tip and when they do I'm usually on delivery, so I get next to nothing. I'm basically making $5 less or so every day because it's “too inconvenient to change”. They also I now know have been changing my hours to reflect this as I was clocking back in as $9.
This feels illegal, I'm doing more work for less than my agreed wage. I'm in GA so I don't expect much, but am I right?