title. went in for a review and asked for a review as I’d been there 8mo and every other full-time employee (all of them has been with the company 6mo) has been give raises ranging from 8-30% in the last month. as the manager of my department, their salaries had all outpaced mine with the raises (they are all in a different department however) so I decided to ask for 20% hoping for at least 10.85%. I am salaried at $58,500 a year. They first informed me that effective this current pay period I would be moved to an hourly worker per their lawyer’s recommendation that ALL employees be hourly. I asked if the other two department managers were being moved to hourly and they said they weren’t as they were “operations”, whatever that means. I first told them that I was very against the switch and that I had huge concerns. We only get 4 paid holidays per year, but close for another 5 plus we close for the last week of the year. As a salary worker these days were paid, as an hourly worker they would not be. They seemed shocked by this concern and I told them before we even discuss a raise, they would need to give me at least an effective pay bump for those days which equals out to $2640 at my current rate. They said they’d have to discuss and get back to me. They then told me that salaried employees are not eligible for raises until 1y. I immediately called bullshit – another manager just got a raise after 6mo + as they just informed me, I’m hourly. I asked for my raise of 20%. After the meeting, I realized that my request ($33.13hr) was incorrect due to my listed hourly pay on my paystub of $28.13. We do not work 8 hours, only 7.5 so I had to request an additional $3 to $36. As of right now, my hourly wage is $28.13 which equals out to $54,853 plus I’ve lost 10-11 paid days per year equaling out to $2320. Effectively as of right now my compensation has dropped $6k with no communication since from them. We do get 5 paid days leave yearly, so I could offset half of those days, but per our current leave policy of 5 days for the first 5 years, 10 days for the next TEN years, I would have to be at this job for the next 14 years before I could take a single 5 day vacation without my compensation being affected.