My question involves employment and labor law for the state of: Maryland
Today was pay day, and when 4 full time supervisors received their direct deposit, we all noticed a week's worth of pay was missing. When we inquired about this, our boss decided to inform us that our job titles have changes and we were being dropped from salary to hourly employees (not due to disciplinary actions-but due to the company being acquired 4 months ago.) 500+ employees were told in an acquisition meeting by the CFO, that no monetary status would change in 2014. Well, in the past 2 weeks, they have dropped our differential and moved us to hourly employees, not allowing for overtime. My question is, since we were given a different pay structure and title, shouldn’t we have been told and given some type of “grace period” or warning? Also, should we have to sign new contracts or agreements? Also, if our department closes, we were promised a severance, as salary employees. Now that we are hourly, can they decided there will be no severance paid if our department closes?

