What are my right as an employee regarding my work hours?
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What are my right as an employee regarding my work hours?
I was hired to work as a salaried full-time remote employee with work hours of 8 am to 5 pm and was told that occasional unpaid overtime would be expected? The company has production standards that no employee is able to achieve without working overtime; since I started I’ve been logging 14-16 hours days, plus we are required to work weekends because we were told the entire team hasn’t met the daily production quota during the week. When I inquired as to suggestions as how this quota can be met during an 8 or 9 hour work day, 1 of the Quality Control Analysts told me that it couldn’t be done.
Asked on December 30, 2012 under Employment Labor Law, Georgia
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 11 years ago | Contributor
Unfortunately, in the absence of a written employment contract which specifies or guarantees your hours, you would not have any recourse or rights. When there is no contract, an employer is free to change or increase employee hours at will, without notice and without having to justify it, and similarly is free to set performance or productivity targets which can only be met by working extenstive additional hours.
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