Now I know for almost any employer this is illegal, however I’m doing “contract work” for a landscaping company. My main job is working two graveyards every week and I get paid a flat rate for this. The problem is the guy also gives me tons of side jobs to do, driving all the way out to middle of nowhere to over grown barns and ponds to weed eat and I get paid $15 an hour. He hires in his nephew at 17$/hr, at half my age and less than half my expertise, then proceeds to tell everyone working under him not to discuss pay anymore because it “causes problems.” Riiiight.
So is it legal for a contract employer In KY to do this? Nothing in writing this is all verbal. Meaning I’m pretty sure he knows it’s wrong and thinks i don’t know it’s wrong.