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My world is upside down

The last couple of weeks have been really difficult on this end.  My partner works as a nurse at a nursing home, and has been qualified for over 2 years.  I normally don't talk about my relationships, but this is getting hard. There is nothing wrong between us, but there is some major conflict around his work.  Twice in the past 2 weeks I have had a phone call with him crying and upset on the other end.  His work has had a habit of taking advantage of his good nature and his deep care for the residence.  This has meant that he does a lot of extra shifts over each pay period.  Up till now this has not been an issue, as the pay has been welcome. However now they are taking away regular shifts for the extras he does often at a 1/2 hour notice, sometimes he has to to double shift which sees him at work for 16 hours straight. On top of this they have been incorrectly paying him for over 2 years.  Since he was qualified his pay rate was meant t...