answer:I would seriously look into this. Check with the labour board or your equivalent. About a year ago, while Mr. Fiance was working as a restaurant manager, a franchise management company bought the franchise from the former franchisee, and was making all kinds of changes. Mr. Fiance had been working there for nearly 8 years, and had recently gone from full-time to part-time in order to go to university. When he made that change, the general manager decided that, rather than change his salary to an hourly wage, he’d pay him 60% of salary for 60% of the hours worked in a full-time week. (I hope that makes sense.) In effect, they created a part-time management position for him. The new company decided that they didn’t like the arrangement, and offered to pay him an hourly wage which worked out to be just over half what he was making per hour on salary. It was considered legal because they said that they would either cut his wage or lay him off – they were eliminating the position of part-time manager, so it would be considered a lack of work. Luckily, Mr. Fiance was able to get unemployment because his termination was classed as a layoff. Check it out – there may be some kind of loophole that allows your employer to do this legally, but it sounds a little fishy to me. Sorry I can’t help with the legality of it all; I just thought I’d throw my example out there as it seemed somewhat similar. Good luck.