Hi I’m a long time lurker of this subreddit and unfortunately I have a problem with my job, when I was hired at my job I negotiated a salary of 9 an hour instead of 8 an hour using advice from this very subreddit I was pretty proud of that, you guys helped me through my one of my first job interviews. But on to the problem, last year I got a raise from 9 to 10 an hour which I was very happy about since I worked very hard for it, but yesterday I was talking with my sister about how I felt like my checks were low I work Tuesday through Friday until we open back up on Monday’s and I thought that maybe since we weren’t back to the usual schedule my check was just short but nope I have an app from the actual job that lets me check my pay and w-2’s stuff like that, so me and my sister checked and she helped since she worked there beforehand come to find out I’m still getting paid 9 an hour. I’m over here super confused because I got a notification that my pay went from 9 to 10 when I got a raise I even got an email but when I tried finding both I was unsuccessful. The next day I told my general manager immediately and she said she would try to figure it out and get me reimbursed for the missing pay I thought it would be settled eventually but nope it only gets worse. I had this nagging feeling this wasn’t exactly off the table I talked to my friend about and he said to look at my w-2’s so I did and I was horrified to learn I was being paid 8 dollars an hour I am very upset and mortified. So please Reddit what can I do I am going to tell my general manager tomorrow about what I just found.
for context I’m 17 so I want to see what kind of rights do I have. I turn 18 in the summer so would I have to wait to take action?