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I have a lot of questions, so bare with me. I have worked for my uncle's air conditioning company this summer until now and for the past 6 summers; I'm 20 years old now. This morning, he asked myself and another employee to sign a memorandum saying that we would fill out a certain checklist on every job, and if we didn't our pay could be reduced to a training wage. Also, if we didn't sell something he thinks should have been sold on a service call, we can also have our pay reduced to a training wage. I asked him how much a training wage was, and after some thought he decided minimum wage. I asked him how long that would last, and he said until we learned our lesson, or the difference in pay made up for the lost revenue. IE pay at 10$/hr reduced to 7.50$/hr for 80 hours to make up for a 200$ item not sold. I didn't want to sign something as opened ended as this so I kept asking questions about it, and eventually he told me that if I wanted to ask questions like that I could pack up my things and call a cab. See, I drive a company vehicle during the summer and during the school year, because he bought it when I was 16 and we had the agreement that I would work in the summers to pay for the truck until I had it paid off and the truck would be mine. About a year after we made that agreement, and I had given him around 6000$ for the truck, I got into a minor accident, and he took the truck from my possession saying that he didn't want to run the risk of being sued if I hurt someone. He let me begin driving it a gain about 8 months later, and I have driven it since then, about 2 years. I also live in his house in the summers to work, in Clearwater, because I go to college at FSU and would otherwise have no where to stay during the summer to work. When he told me to leave this morning, I asked about my things at his house and he said he would have them waiting outside for me, but I got in the truck and left the office and went back to his house to pick up my things. He called me and threatened to call the cops if I didn't come back to the office immediately but I went to his house anyways to pack up my things; I wasn't upset or angry. There has been a tension between us since last Friday when we got our paychecks and I had been shorted 5 hours of overtime because I misdiagnosed an A/C system a week earlier, and he said that he surely wasn't going to pay for our time out there.
My questions are: Will I get my final paycheck at my normal wages? Can he deduct time or make other deductions from my final paycheck without my written consent? Do I have any rights to the truck or the money that I put towards it? Can he not count time that I worked when he issues a paycheck as a form of punishment for a mistake?
My questions are: Will I get my final paycheck at my normal wages? Can he deduct time or make other deductions from my final paycheck without my written consent? Do I have any rights to the truck or the money that I put towards it? Can he not count time that I worked when he issues a paycheck as a form of punishment for a mistake?
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