I am a little irked at thi point so please bare with me. I have worked with my empolyer since February of 2008. Starting out we were all hourly employees, $11.00 per hour. After our 90 day evaluation we were all placed on Salary of $28,000 per year. We were all working overtime and would make up time if we were late or sick. We sat down with the operations manager when she started docking us days if we were out of the office- eventhough we were making up the time and/ or working at home, or coming in on the weekend. We made her aware that what she was doing was illegal and demanded payment for all of our overtime. That was last week. Not a single one of us have been paid our overtime and now we are being forced to sign a new employment contract, with crazy restrictions. We were also notified last night after our work day we were all going to be moved to an hourly rate, instead of our salary. The holidays were were supposed to be paid for are now being taken away. Can they do this? None of us have signed the "new" Contract. PLEASE HELP US!

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