If an employer makes a mistake on your paycheck, how much time do they have to fix it? Also, if I am hired and am promised a certain hourly amount, can the employer decrease it without my knowledge? I was supposed to have been paid at a training rate for the first two weeks, then the hourly rate would go up after training. I've been there a month and am still making the 'training' hourly rate?

If an employer makes a mistake on your paycheck, how much time do they have to fix it? Also, if I am hired and am promised a certain hourly amount, can the employer decrease it without my knowledge? I was supposed to have been paid at a training rate for the first two weeks, then the hourly rate would go up after training. I've been there a month and am still making the 'training' hourly rate?
From everything I have read here, you can have your wages changed with proper notification. Have you asked your boss why you are not making any more since the training is over? I hate to say it though, but since your wages weren't put in writing, your job could deny saying that you would get more when training was done. How long have you been done with training? Did they say you were done with it? My job would give you a raise after you were past your 6 months probation period,maybe the "training" period is 6 months also? Are you a union member?

I don't believe there is any specific time frame they have to correct errors.

You can have your wages decreased but you have to be notified in advance of working any hours at the lower rate of pay. (Decreasing wages means that you were earning x and you are now earning y; it does not mean that you were earning x, expecting to be raised to z and are still earning x. If you were earning x, expected to be raised to z and are still earning x your wages have not been decreased.)

Unless you have a bona fide contract that specifies when you will receive raises, your employer has no legal obligation to increase your pay unless you have been working at exactly mininum wage and minimum wage is raised by the appropriate legislative body.

I don't believe there is any specific time frame they have to correct errors.

You can have your wages decreased but you have to be notified in advance of working any hours at the lower rate of pay. (Decreasing wages means that you were earning x and you are now earning y; it does not mean that you were earning x, expecting to be raised to z and are still earning x. If you were earning x, expected to be raised to z and are still earning x your wages have not been decreased.)

Unless you have a bona fide contract that specifies when you will receive raises, your employer has no legal obligation to increase your pay unless you have been working at exactly mininum wage and minimum wage is raised by the appropriate legislative body.
I was hoping that someone could clarify this. I figured a contract would be neccesary to prove the raise promised after training. Thanks again!

Regarding a specific time frame to correct errors, you can contact CA-DLSE and ask them.

http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/

We still don't know what type of error it was. It MAY make a difference.

If an employer makes a mistake on your paycheck, how much time do they have to fix it?

Agreed. But the original question was what was the time frame in CA to fix errors, and the answer seemed to be that no one was sure that there was a time frame specifed in law. If such a time frame exists, then CA-DLSE would know what it was.