reduction in pay

plaginess

Can you legally reduce an employee's pay due to performance or is it better to terminate?

Hunter1

Since there are no responses, I'll take a stab at this: Yes, you can reduce an employee's pay for poor performance, just like you can increase an employee's pay for good performance. Piece work or commissions do this kind of automatically. I'll leave it up to you whether you should do it or not.

Shadowfax

I agree. Just don't do it retroactively - but - prospectively, up to ee whether he wants to work for the reduced wage.

cebudragonlady

You can reduce the pay - suggest you have goals clearly communicated to the employee by which he/she can aim to improve performance by a certain time and thus get pay increases.

Chari