I’m an electrician and I’ve been working with this company for the past few months, when I was speaking with my (soon to be former) employer over the phone, we agreed on $18/hr. Fast forward to this past week when I received my check which included 2 hours of overtime and I noticed that it didn’t align with $18/hr. So I check all my paystubs and sure enough, I was being paid $16/hr for the entirety of my employment with this company. Now, i mentioned this to my employer today, and not only did he open the conversation with him essentially laying me off, but then simultaneously telling me that he was willing to provide me a severance package as a form of back pay for the time that I had been underpaid, I accepted it and told him that I didn’t mind finishing the week since the site I was on was reaching its deadline (Thursday), after this, he says “oh then I don’t have to give you that severance since you’re gonna finish this week” and I was left so speechless that I had to make up an excuse to hang up
What can I do???