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Can an employer require evening social events/12-hour days at risk of being fired?
I work remotely for an online school. The employer has decided on short notice that we will be required to travel for 4 days to the home office for a "conference." (Travel was not in the original term...
1 answer  |  asked Mar 1, 2010 8:22 PM [EST]  |  applies to Pennsylvania

How do I take care of a hostile employer?
I work at a coffee shop, and many things have happened there that were very hostile and abusive towards me. I would like to know what I can do to solve this problem. For example, a lady came through t...
1 answer  |  asked Feb 18, 2010 9:00 PM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Can a salaried employee be docked holiday pay?
I am a salaried employee. Our handbook states the employee must work the day before and the day after the holiday in order to receive holiday pay. I was out sick the day after a holiday. I have PTO ti...
1 answer  |  asked Jan 4, 2010 12:03 PM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Can I sue my employer for requiring me to go to work when I am sick providing a doctor's note?
I was reprimanded for calling off work because I was sick and I even provided them a doctor's note. I was told by human resource that I should have shown up for work anyways even if I was going to be ...
2 answers  |  asked Jan 2, 2010 02:50 AM [EST]  |  applies to California

Forced to work holidays when not my scheduled days
My wife works in the guard shack at a private lake community. She works first shift weekends, every weekend(she works Sat & Sun 16 hrs every week), on time never misses, she has always worked any holi...
2 answers  |  asked Dec 16, 2009 8:09 PM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

I want to sue my employer for my raise, and defamation of work ethics
I worked as contractor for Computer Sciences Corporation in year 2007. My performance evaluaitons ere always exceeded expectations with performance increase. I was dismissed in August 2007 and my imme...
1 answer  |  asked Dec 4, 2009 09:34 AM [EST]  |  applies to District of Columbia

I have been doing 24/7 On Call in a group for two a almost two and a half years
You are resticted after your 8 hours due to the reponse time. They only want pay per page not the time you have to stay around waiting. Isnt this a viloation of the FLSA and CLSA?
1 answer  |  asked Nov 17, 2009 11:35 PM [EST]  |  applies to California

If no non-compete clause was ever signed, can I still use client info. in new business?
I never signed a non-compete clause. I quit my job and want to start a competing business. I kept clients' names and cities in a daytimer, and client information sheets given to me by the company to c...
1 answer  |  asked Nov 9, 2009 7:47 PM [EST]  |  applies to North Carolina

Can an employer garnish the wages of an employee who was working when a restaurant was robbed?
My brother-in-law was a manager at a restaurant when it was held up at gunpoint. Now, the restaurant owners are trying to say that he is responsible for the stolen money. They are telling him that the...
1 answer  |  asked Nov 8, 2009 6:18 PM [EST]  |  applies to Texas

Can my boss make days of work mandatory?
I am a part time hairstylist that works on commission. My boss closes our salon the first week of January as her choice...She tell us that because she is closed from a Monday-Thursday that Friday and ...
1 answer  |  asked Nov 2, 2009 08:40 AM [EST]  |  applies to Pennsylvania