My husband works for the state of Florida. His normal schedule gives him about 8 hours of overtime regularly not including the days he actually works overtime shifts. A few weeks ago he had worked almost 40 hours of overtime on one pay period but when it came time to get paid he only got paid for around 16 hours. Also during this pay period he did call out for one shift due to an illness I had(I'm disabled).
We found out that around May they had changed a policy where if you call out and it is unexcused but you have overtime they will subtract the hours you should be worked (fair) to compensate for the day off. Except they also take all of the pay for those days away from you and use it to pay whoever would have been your replacement. If there's no one called in then the agency just keeps the money that is taken from you. The pay difference from his circumstance makes it seem like he had time taken from him without pay and also additional time taken to pay for the replacement. We can't confirm this because their “pay stub” and time sheet don't have a breakdown of either hours worked or what you're actually getting paid for. I've never seen anything like it much less from an actual state.
So because of all that we can't even confirm what actually happened. Additionally, as far as the change in policy goes, apparently it was announced through an email notification that my husband doesn't actually have access so he never read it and obviously didn't sign or acknowledge knowing about it.
Question is basically, regarding the lack of info about pay and a drastic change in policy without signing a new contract, is that legal?