Same situation as my last question. My job prints out the schedules at the begining of the week. I was scheduled to work on Easter sunday, which I did, then I was told that I wasn't supposed to work on that day. There is no printed change to my original schedule so this was a verbal change to my schedule that I did not hear. Is it legal to make a change to the schedule (removing hours) once already posted?
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UNLESS YOU WORK IN A UNION SHOP, THEY CAN CHANGE ANYTHING THEY WANT AT ANYTIME AND YOU HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT.
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well if you gave him a 1 week notice, its only correct to try to finish what you have on your desk. however when friday comes around......see ya, wouldnt want to be ya.\nit is against the law to give any additional work info besides date of hire, date of termination and position if and when they call him for referance, at least in florida, it could be consideed defamation of character... dont you just love our legal system!!!
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there are no laws... but in the employer's policies there might be something about being sent home early.  Like where I work, we do not have to go unless we want to and they can not work us less than 4 hours unless we want to work less.
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well i'm thinking of telling my boss to turn the clocks BACK an hour tonight instead of forward... I don't have to work tomorrow!\n\nwe do food deliveries at the restaurant i work at.  one of our drivers is a nice kid, hyper but fun.  when business gets 'backed up' he gets a bit high strung.  how the system works is he gets a delivery bag with a ticket printed on the top with the order, address, and cost.  of course he was so hyped up he grabbed the bag and ran out the door to his car to take it... not knowing that we had printed up a ticket with the restaurant's address on it.  we put a few empty boxes in the delivery bag so it wasn't 'empty' and off he goes.  \n\nwe're watching him out the window as he leaves, zooms out of the parking lot, turns down the side street, gets about 50 feet... and stops.  he's looking around at the restaurant, the businesses next door, the house across the street, and we can see his facial expressions the whole time. finally he saw us looking, gives a big sheepish grin, pulls back into the lot and comes in.  opens the bag and finds a pile of empty boxes inside.  busted!\n\n"hey john, where were you going with that order?"\n\n"%*&$#&@ you guys!"
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Yup where I live it is legal and it has happened to me.  There is nothing you can do about it.  I even went as far as getting a lawyer and they even told me there was nothing that could be done.  However, the lawyer contacted the place where I worked and they changed my file to say I left rather than I was fired.
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i think the opening hours are any nowadays!\nand the norm is time and a half or days in lieu!\ni working good friday 8 till 6! :(
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Perfectly legal. You should watch the news more! If you are being paid to work for that company, work. Do not access anything personal except at lunch or breaktime.Our company also checks to make sure no one is going on naughty websites and can tell you what has been erased even! You can come in early or stay late for personal things, if you have no other choice. They are not interested in your bank account-only of you were paying bills on company time.
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http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=off&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=employee+absence+schedule&spell=1
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The Rx messed up yes by not removing the old lable or if the old lable was not able to come off they must black it out. It is a concern and let the Rx manager know, it will be noted. Legal actions taken towards the Rx by reporting them to the Foods and Drug adminastration would not change a mistake, Id guess it was a simple mistake thats all.
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not calling in for a week is considered 'job abandonment', in which case, you have no case against them. I know this is a legit reason for termination, because it was used on me. However, I *had* called in. In fact, I had worked a full 10 hour shift during the time they claim they had not heard from me. However, it wasn't worth it to me to fight them in court. Maybe I should have. Turns out, they were fighting like 10 lawsuits at one time.
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In most parts of the US - this would be an easy "Yes".  In Canada I am not so sure. I  did find the section of the law that seems to apply, but it has some provisions that are very different from how things are in the US. I am hoping it makes more sense to you.\n\n170. \n(2) Subject to subsection (3), an employer may, in respect of employees not subject to a collective agreement, establish, modify or cancel a work schedule under which the hours exceed the standard hours of work set out in paragraph 169(1)(a) if\n\n(a) the average hours of work for a period of two or more weeks does not exceed forty hours a week; and\n\n(b) the schedule, or its modification or cancellation, has been approved by at least seventy per cent of the affected employees.\n\nPosting of notice\n\n(3) Where a work schedule is to be established, modified or cancelled pursuant to subsection (2), the employer shall post a notice of the new schedule, or of its modification or cancellation, in readily accessible places where it is likely to be seen by the affected employees, for at least thirty days before the new schedule or its modification or cancellation takes effect.\n\nR.S., 1985, c. L-2, s. 170; 1993, c. 42, s. 15.
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What does the company policy say?  There's no time limit that an employer has to follow for writting employees up.  The main thing is that one of the following is followed:\n\n1)There's a policy and it states that you can be written up, in this case there's not really anything you can do since you should know your companies policies.  \n\n2)If there's no policy, then is this applied consitently with other workers.  This can be a tricky one.  If they can show they've written others up for this reason then there's not really anything that can be done.  Also if they can show that while you're the only one written up, but no one else had the same problem there's not much that can be done.\n\nLearn to show up to work on time.  Most employeers understand the occasional tardy, but I'm guessing if they're going back two months you've far exceeded that level of understanding.
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No, not discrimination. Not only did you fail the required background check, you were also late. You did not say if you listed your convictions on your form, but it really does not change anything to help you.\n\n(Added 5/11)\nNever said you were worthless, yes people do change. 7 years after your conviction all is gone. For simplicity sake, when I say “terminate your employment” in my discussion below, you could also substitute “have your employment offer withdrawn”. Your big question is do you have a case for discrimination. The answer is no for several reasons:\n1. Employers have the right to perform background checks at any time during your employment.\n2. Employers have the specific right to make hiring and firing decisions based on background checks. They are not required to wait for the results of a pre-employment background check to make an employment offer.\n3. Employment offers are not normally binding on the employer. If you received a written offer letter you will see all of the outs they give themselves. If you received the offer verbally, it is never binding.\n4. Your employment is "At Will". You do not have an enforceable employment contract with them; they can terminate your employment "at will"\n5. Discrimination only applies to protected classes or to specific characteristics. If your employment was terminated because of your race, sex, etc you would have a discrimination case. Criminal background is specifically excluded from employment discrimination.\n6. You still have not addressed what you said about your criminal background on your application. If you lied on your application they could terminate your employment simply for that.\n7. Even thought they called you before you arrived and so therefore you were not yet technically late, they could terminate your employment for telling them you would be late on your first day. In most jobs attendance is a big issue. They want employees they know they can count on to be there when scheduled. On your first day you told them they can’t count on you. I have seen a number of people fired for this issue alone.
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Cut-off time in your example is 4:30pm. Your workplace is not responsible for your commute, as they are not forcing you to live 3 hours away, regardless of traffic.\n\nUnless you are on a contract basis and expense that sort of thing.
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My wife did substitute teaching when our son was young so she could be available to stay home with him if he got sick (or if she was sick or needed to do something else rather than work).  It worked out great!  She always got up and dressed as if she had to be at work by 7am.  She got calls almost daily, and I think part of the reason was because word got around that she was always there shortly after she was called.  She filled in several times with advance notice, but most of the time it was a last minite thing - often it was because of a teacher who woke up feeling sick or having something happen in the morning.  The best part about it was being able to say "I am not available, today, but call again" if she got a call on a day that she couldn't work.  (One trick is to never give the reason you aren't available and they'll always think you have already been taken by another school.) Good luck!
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Anymore employers seem to be able to do anything they want and unfortunately whether it is legal or not GET AWAY WITH IT.\n\nMy boss' idea of a pay cut was like last week for example.  Instead of working our normal scheduled 32 hr holiday week schedule +8hrs holiday pay, all I got was 23 hrs of work just because upper mngmnt said we need to save money "again".\nThis is the kind of BS we've been tolerating lately off and on and its getting really old.  Mngmnt doesn't get any proportional weekly cut and I feel they should as well.  Its always the working stiff in America who has to eat the SH** of mngmnt's problems.  I feel a lot of working people would agree with this statement.
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Lets face facts the Jews were here before the Christians and if God told them that Saturday was the day of rest then so be it. But the loony telling us that it should be Friday and the local Father insisting it is Sunday may not be wrong too. \nWhy take chances. \nI've told my wife I will not work of Friday to Sunday to avoid messing with God (and maybe Wednesdays too - cause I feel God would send me a message not to put all nonworking days in one cluster!)