Pay Cut
By Jimbo45
@Ineeddentures (26346)
April 7, 2026 7:28am CST
If your employer asked you to take a pay cut would you agree to it?
So you are working away with an employer
And have been for many years and they come to you and say if you don't take a 20% pay cut you won't have a job anymore
What would you do?
I don't know what I would do.
I obviously wouldn't be happy
I would be worried because 20% pay cut would hit hard, maybe I would be poverty stricken
Employers shouldn't be able to just cut wages, should they?
Has this ever happened to you?
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@snowy22315 (205565)
• United States
4h
I don't think so. I would be resenting coming to work everyday with a pay cut. The place where I was "working" last was almost as bad. They would have mystery shops that all different levels of responsibility with them, like recording them audially or something and try to pay as much as regular shop that didn't need a recording..How cheap...or maybe they would try to pay less than 100 for a video shop.
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@Ineeddentures (26346)
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Just now
I would really resent it
Especially if I had been a good employee and actually was proactive in selling and bringing money in
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@snowy22315 (205565)
• United States
Just now
@Ineeddentures That's right, if they can't appreciate you, you can always take your talents elsewhere.
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@Ineeddentures (26346)
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@snowy22315
It's our friend Siobhan
It's happening to her
And she is about the best of the 8 employees the guy has
He is taking the piss
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@Fleura (34505)
• United Kingdom
Just now
@Ineeddentures I suspect that an employment lawyer would cost a lot more than 20% of your income! That's the catch.
@Ineeddentures (26346)
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Just now
Prices going up
Wages going down 20%
I would be finding an employment lawyer and making sure this wouldn't breach employment law
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@Marilynda1225 (89776)
• United States
4h
That's really hard to answer but it would depend on if it was permanent or temporary and if I could live on a 20% cut.
Guess I might consider saying yes and then look for something else that would pay better
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@Ineeddentures (26346)
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Just now
I would say no
And whilst they were trying to impose a 20% cut go get legal advice.
And find a new job
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@lovebuglena (50823)
• Staten Island, New York
2h
I don’t think my wages were ever cut when I used to work.
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@Ineeddentures (26346)
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Just now
Dont want to be in that position either
Our friend Siobhan finds herself in that position
My job is to find.oit how many of her colleagues have been offered the same deal
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@Ineeddentures (26346)
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Just now
Aye well I still wouldnt take a 20% wage cut especially if it meant I was going to earn less than the legal minimum wage
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@Fleura (34505)
• United Kingdom
4h
That would be very difficult, but I can understand why it might happen, especially when times are difficult, an employer, especially a small employer, might prefer to offer a pay cut, hopefully temporary, rather than lay off loyal staff and then have to re-hire people when times improve.
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@Fleura (34505)
• United Kingdom
Just now
@Ineeddentures That's very true but of course higher wages, higher employers' NI contributions, increased costs of absolutely everything (fuel, fertiliser, suppliers' labour and energy costs etc etc) obviously means that the prices we all pay for things will also go up, so may cancel out the benefit of higher pay. And it's always the people at the bottom (those on the minimum wage) who are worst affected because they have to spend a larger proportion of their income.
@Ineeddentures (26346)
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Just now
Aye
Good thing we have a minimum wage employers can't pay less than
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@MommyOfEli2013 (87734)
• Rupert, Idaho
Just now
I would say heck no....even though I haven't worked in 15+ years really
so I don't know how much 20% would really be
