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.
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.
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.
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".
Well if State and Fed employees, after smoke breaks, chit-chat, long lunches and general laziness. Who owes who now? A taxpayer wants his dues!
This is awful, and these companies should have to pay back wages. That hair salon featured here should be prosecuted. That's nothing less than the powerful kicking the weak around.
Why do these people not report their companies? Sheesh. If you don't fight back, you don't get to bitch.
That being said, I would never have gone in with them, I believe that if you don't like your situation, it's up to you to change it.
"No" is the most powerful word you can use. If you position yourself to say no to any deal, you can control it. In a job, this means the ability to quit.
If you find yourself in a position where you can't say no, work to remedy the situation.
Forced to Work Off the Clock, Some Fight Back......then die....666
***Many people who study business practices say off-the-clock work has become more prevalent because middle managers face greater pressure to lower labor costs and because the managers' bonuses may even be tied to cutting those costs. ***
So it's okay to screw over the workers so the manager gets a good bonus.