Is it legal for your place of employment to solicite you every year to donate to their charity?

Is it legal for your place of employment to solicite you every year to donate to their charity?

I work at a car dealership and every year my company’s General Manager pulls us aside in groups, during business hours. We are sat down in a conference room with him and a rep for a charity. There is a paper to donate put in front of us and we are told we are not obligated to donate but he is standing there the entire time staring at us. Then whoever fills out the form, whether donating or not, he puts all their names in a pool and picks a name and that person gets a paid day off. But we feel uncomfortable because he knows whose donating and whose not. Charity is a private thing to most of us.

Asked on June 26, 2012 under Employment Labor Law, Florida

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