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Your schedule is 9 to 5. Mon -fri They make you stay home but you have to check in and be on standby. If you get paged out after hours or the weekend they say we don't have to pay you anything for that because we are paying 40 hours pto for the week. I am a non exempt employee and I receive... View More 
answered on May 8, 2020
If you are a non-exempt employee (and therefore entitled to overtime if you work over 40 hours per week), what you are describing is unlawful. More information is needed about your employment to determine if you are exempt.
Female coworker is not pregnant
answered on Apr 1, 2020
Yes, it's harassment. But if that's the only statement at issue, it's probably not to establish a pattern of discriminatory conduct.
My boss does want to pay me 12 hours overtime because she said it wasn’t approved but regardless I worked it so isn’t she still obligated to pay me ? Also I was promoted to a manager and then demoted me in two months because she hired someone without a Real reason and then dropped my pay.
answered on Dec 31, 2019
If you are a non-exempt employee, your boss must pay you 1.5 times your regular hourly rate for all hours worked after having already worked 40 hours per week. She can't use your alleged lack of authorization as an excuse for not paying you overtime.
I am 16 yrs old and I work for a Franchise my boss threatened to take 1 hour off everyone’s paycheck because we were so busy that we did not have time to fill the sauces. Although we did end up filling them, I think that the Boss cannot really take away and Hour worth of everyone’s paycheck... View More
answered on Oct 22, 2019
He could not legally penalize his staff in the manner you described. Taking an hour off staff's pay as punishment would be an unlawful deduction.
I work for a trucking company, we have the smart drive camera system, these cameras only record several seconds before and several seconds after an event like accident, hard brake, red light etc.. there's two cameras, one facing the front and the other facing me, they are used for security... View More
answered on Aug 31, 2019
It's generally not legal in New York to record peoples' conversations unless at least one of the participants in the conversation knows that it's being recorded.
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