Posted on 11/18/2004 8:03:56 PM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
My sister works for an insurance company that tells the employees they have to be on-line and ready by 8:30. It takes about 10 minutes or so to get there! So, they have to come in early or get reprimanded.This is also a company that times your bathroom breaks!
What a country, we have illegals working legally, and in this article we have legals working illegally. The NYT is not my paper of record, but from my first hand knowledge a lot of this coercion is going on.
Seems pretty common in fast food joints employing kids, neighbor kids all had to endure this or lose their jobs.
Scummy behavior on the part of employers.
Oh, and, at the end of the day, she has to clock out at 5 even if the last call lasted til long after.
I believe it. I used to have to work after my quitting time, even though I wouldn't be paid for it.
I think this goes on a lot.
Not sure if going to the labor board would help or not.
Having said that, I will say that many of the cases identified in this article (assuming they are true) are an absolute disgrace. In Catholic moral theology, depriving a worker of his/her just wages is a sin that cries out to heaven for vengeance.
some car dealerships are doing this now in the service department. the mechanics essentially are hourly contractors. they come into work in the AM, if there are cars there with 4 hours of work on the clock needing repairs - you get paid for 4 hours of work.
Welcome to the salaried world, MWAHAHAHAHAA!
Many weeks, Ms. LeBlue spent 40 hours in the salon, but was ordered to clock out for 20 of them while waiting for customers to show up, she said.
But they still had to be there. Is their time/lives not worth anything?
If so, they can quit and find another job. FREEDOM!
that's like saying checkout clerks at the store should not be paid when, at certain times of the day, no one is on line to checkout. they should just stand there, at work, not being paid, while waiting for a customer to come to the register.
for some americans, these kinds of low paid service jobs is all they can do, all that's available. so if all companies engage in these practices, where are they supposed to go?
tell us, what do you do for a living?
bump for later reading!'
I agree with you OceanView!
My husband is a chef, paid hourly, and he just found out they have been basing his pay on his scheduled hours not his actual hours- a lot of times he gets in and his boss asks him to clock in early or they have to stay late to close. I know he should have been tracking his actual hours to paid hours all along, but he's too trusting for his own good.
Union
too bad the labor movement's gotten smacked around so badly the past few scores of years. now with dems abandoning workers (not to mention short on power), these folks'll be lucky to get a dime. and i'm sure they're just the tip of the iceberg.
This is not really a problem. You see we have a comparable number of workers who don't do any work when they are "on the clock".
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