Is This Even Legal?

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When I started my newspaper delivery job in 2013, the distribution manager was pretty cool and laid back, having a full staff to work around the warehouse, getting shit together effectively, and keeping the pay fair for the size of the routes and the number of newspapers it gets every week.

She ended up getting fired at the end of 2014 for failing to keep people on two new routes she acquired from another branch.

The publication quickly found a new manager and she was quick in showing us how shitty she was; she lowered our pay and, being one big of a whale, hardly did shit around the warehouse and only had two people try to keep things in order (previous manager had ten).

Our routes used to remain the same size with the previous manager - when a customer ends their subscription, we get a new customer to compensate; the new manager hardly makes any effort, only replacing one customer for every five that cancels.

It's been a little over a year and the manager finally got around in renewing our contracts, making our routes more expensive to run.

You see, since newspaper carriers are considered self-employed, we have to pay for any complaints or expenses toward the routes, which are deducted from our checks before we get them; the cost was low with the previous manager, being $2 per complaint, but the new manager is increasing the costs because she cannot keep people on routes due to the poor pay and training.

Not only that, she has included a new $25 fee because of this.

I'm seriously thinking about leaving that shithole, since I was making $400-$500 and now making $200-$300.