Our company is forcing overtime threatening termination for not working, we have people who have child care is
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inmatters asked:
Our company is forcing overtime threatening termination for not working, we have people who have child care issues.
Our company is forcing overtime threatening termination for not working, we have people who have child care issues.
Can the company legally terminate someone if they can prove they need to care for their child? We were told they can make up the time on Saturday the problem with that is that some of these folks have court ordered custody every other weekend. Please any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Tags: Child Care Issues, Working People
October 18th, 2008 at 3:03 am
Yes they can.
October 19th, 2008 at 10:26 am
Where are you? In California, you must work overtime if given enough notice, and the employer can terminate you for not working. it, regardless of your child care issues - it is perfectly legal for them to force their employees to work overtime.
October 21st, 2008 at 12:28 am
The only law requires overtime pay, but otherwise all employment contracts are negotiable. That includes pay, hours, etc.
October 21st, 2008 at 9:14 am
Forcing you to work overtime is illegal. Any unscheduled time is your decision to work if that’s what you decide. Get a labor standards book and take it up with your employer, and rally the employees to file grievances. You have rights, you are human
October 22nd, 2008 at 12:49 pm
not in england it’s not, they can request reasonable overtime but can’t force it unless it’s in your contract, most contracts are signed for x number of hours and thanks to the european law it can’t be forced
October 25th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
The company can and will fire you if you refuse to work mandatory overtime. The child care issue is for the employee to work out. Look at it this way is it fair for childless people to have to work the overtime but not someone with a child?
October 27th, 2008 at 7:26 am
All they need to do is state the truth. I know parents that know their little child is getting screamed at in daycare.
Question I answered 8 months ago:
Noise pollution!!!!!!!!!!!!!?
by pacer Member since:
April 28, 2007
The normal is 11:00pm in most neighborhoods. The fence that is only three feet away from the length side of my house and in my back-yard blocks only most of the view from the whole play area and parking lot of a day-care. Most of the parents that drop off and pick up their kids endless all day long, think this area is a speedway. I enjoy the laughter from the little children playing but the big wheels on pavement is like thunder through my whole house. The sound of the basketballs against the side of the building is just as bad. The worst noise is from the day care workers when they scream at these little, little kids. This goes on all day long every day. The day care opens at 6:00am every day. Your noise is at 8:30am you don’t have a shot in hell! Sorry
October 29th, 2008 at 7:41 am
So all the single people and the people with out children have to pick up all the mandatory overtime and all the people with children should be cut slack?
Here’s the thing…..if you choose to have children… that is your choice. As a single person at work…I should not have to pick up your slack or do all the extra work because you made the decision to have a child and “daycare is closed.”
So…if the job requires overtime of all its employees….those who made the decision to have children can either make arraignments for the child or find another job. The single people and the people who decided to not have children should not have to pick up all the extra work because of a lifestyle decision you (as a parent) made.
The children were your choice…they are your responsibility… and they are not an excuse for you to do less work.