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Is My Employer Allowed To Change My Pay After The Work Is Already Done

Location: New York
I’m trying to figure out if this is actually legal or just shady and I don’t know where to start.

I work hourly and my schedule sometimes changes week to week. Last pay period I picked up extra hours because we were short staffed. Nothing crazy, just staying late a few days. At the time I was told those hours would be paid at my normal rate.

I checked my paycheck this week while I was sitting around playing on my phone and noticed the total was lower than I expected. I went back and did the math and realized some of those extra hours were paid at a lower rate than what I normally make. When I asked about it, my manager said that those hours were considered a different type of work and paid differently, even though no one mentioned that beforehand.
This was never explained to me in advance and there’s nothing in writing that I can find that says my pay changes depending on the task. If I had known, I honestly might not have stayed late those days. I’m not in a position where this ruins me financially, but it still feels wrong to change pay after the fact. I don’t want to blow this up unnecessarily, but I also don’t want this to become a pattern where I just accept it.

Is an employer allowed to retroactively change how hours are paid like this, or does pay have to be clearly agreed on before the work is done. What’s the right way to push back without risking my job if this actually isn’t legal.

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