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I know I'd be better off talking to a local attorney (at least, I assume this is state specific), but I wanted to get advice from the lawyers present on whether or not I may have a case here.
My employer, who will now remain unnamed (even though its been mentioned many times before) has pulled some very shady things in the past. I have put up with most of them with small complaints until now.
I need to preface the story with the fact that while we are all considered hourly employees, for some reason HR requires that we have 40 hours on our checks, nothing less. This policy is not written anywhere that is available to employees, its just something they do.
The office was closed from December 24th at 8pm until December 26th at 8am. People who were scheduled to work during that time were told that we would not have to burn vacation or flex time since it would be an immense amount of vacation wasted for days where we have no choice. My employer's HR department said they would waive the afformentioned "policy" for this instance (they did the same for Thanksgiving).
I took a few hours of flex time on my last scheduled shift before the office closed, knowing that another unpublished policy would be enforced, that being that I would forfeit any holiday pay offered for Christmas Day. I am fine with that.
I came to work on my next scheduled day, to find out that my employer is now requiring me to use flex time for the hours missed while the office was closed, since the only approval for unpaid time was that which was beyond the 8 hours of holiday pay for Christmas Day. This was never told to any employee beforehand, and its actually news to my supervisor.
I spoke with the HR department and the director of the office and was told by both that I would have to burn flex time for the hours the office was closed, end of story.
I feel I can no longer work for a company that pulls this, along with MANY other shady things which I won't mention here. I am planning on putting in my 2 weeks notice on Tuesday (my next scheduled shift), but I wanted to see if I should speak to an attorney about this.
Btw - I should define flex time. Our office has a few different buckets that we get time off from.
Vacation or Paid Time Off is time that is preplanned. For employees of my tenure, we receive 80 hours a year of this time.
Holiday, Floating Holiday and Fixed Floating Holiday is time that is given either as a floating holiday for holidays that fall on a day off, or holiday pay given to employees on days worked.
Flex time is personal time that can be used any way we feel fit. It can either be preplanned or taken as needed. There was a change to the policy in October of 2004 that said that we could use the time as we wanted without fear of reprocussion, as long as we have the time. We are given 64 hours a year of this type of time. This time includes sick time, personal time and any other non-preplanned time off.
What do you think?
edit: I forgot to mention that New Mexico is a hire and fire at will state.
My employer, who will now remain unnamed (even though its been mentioned many times before) has pulled some very shady things in the past. I have put up with most of them with small complaints until now.
I need to preface the story with the fact that while we are all considered hourly employees, for some reason HR requires that we have 40 hours on our checks, nothing less. This policy is not written anywhere that is available to employees, its just something they do.
The office was closed from December 24th at 8pm until December 26th at 8am. People who were scheduled to work during that time were told that we would not have to burn vacation or flex time since it would be an immense amount of vacation wasted for days where we have no choice. My employer's HR department said they would waive the afformentioned "policy" for this instance (they did the same for Thanksgiving).
I took a few hours of flex time on my last scheduled shift before the office closed, knowing that another unpublished policy would be enforced, that being that I would forfeit any holiday pay offered for Christmas Day. I am fine with that.
I came to work on my next scheduled day, to find out that my employer is now requiring me to use flex time for the hours missed while the office was closed, since the only approval for unpaid time was that which was beyond the 8 hours of holiday pay for Christmas Day. This was never told to any employee beforehand, and its actually news to my supervisor.
I spoke with the HR department and the director of the office and was told by both that I would have to burn flex time for the hours the office was closed, end of story.
I feel I can no longer work for a company that pulls this, along with MANY other shady things which I won't mention here. I am planning on putting in my 2 weeks notice on Tuesday (my next scheduled shift), but I wanted to see if I should speak to an attorney about this.
Btw - I should define flex time. Our office has a few different buckets that we get time off from.
Vacation or Paid Time Off is time that is preplanned. For employees of my tenure, we receive 80 hours a year of this time.
Holiday, Floating Holiday and Fixed Floating Holiday is time that is given either as a floating holiday for holidays that fall on a day off, or holiday pay given to employees on days worked.
Flex time is personal time that can be used any way we feel fit. It can either be preplanned or taken as needed. There was a change to the policy in October of 2004 that said that we could use the time as we wanted without fear of reprocussion, as long as we have the time. We are given 64 hours a year of this type of time. This time includes sick time, personal time and any other non-preplanned time off.
What do you think?
edit: I forgot to mention that New Mexico is a hire and fire at will state.
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