I work for an Officemax in Wisconsin that recently has come under new management. I work as a furniture stock person part time while attending school full time. Recently, I was cut down to 3-6 hours a week (from 20). When I asked my employer why this was, he told me it was because I "was not making sales rate," then, he continued to either put me in the warehouse where I cannot interact with customers or schedule me before the store opens to unload boxes. Also, when speaking to several other works, I found out that as opposed to writing people up, he has been cutting people's hours to the point where it is costing more to drive to work then we're making working there. My question is:
Is he allowed to cut hours in lieu of following store policy on what to do when employees are not making rate? Furthermore, there are employees who are now being scheduled for 0 hours in a week (he has threatened me with this in the past)... is this something else he is allowed to do in lieu of following the normal Officemax policies? I am sure he can get away with most of it but do we have anything we can do aside from quit?

