"Watch your step — pay-docking ahead," MSNBC.com
In this article, Littler's Tammy McCutchen gives expert advice to employees questioning their employers pay docking strategies. She notes that the employment relationship is a symbiotic one, where employees are "at will" and there is no employment contract. "An employer is free to reduce your pay or demote you whenever they want to and the employee is free to leave when they want to,” says McCutchen.