Is it legal to force employee to do 8 straight days in row and tell them the only way they can have a day off lwork that week is to call off work?
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Is it legal to force employee to do 8 straight days in row and tell them the only way they can have a day off lwork that week is to call off work?
When the new schedule posted in December 2017, I realized I was only employee
not given a day off work, forcing me to do an 8 day stretch from 12/22-12/30/2017. I
went to supervisor and she said the only way I could get a day off work was to call
off. Id never called off work in my entire 1 and 1/2 years of working there.
Asked on April 28, 2018 under Employment Labor Law, Pennsylvania
Answers:
M.D., Member, California and New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 6 years ago | Contributor
As a general rule, there is no law mandating how many hours that an employee can be scheduled to work. Accordingly, you must report to your workplace for the hours that you have been given. If you cannot or do not want to, then you must use any available PTO (i.e. vacation time) that you have in order to cover your time out. Your only protection here is if (1) you have a limit as to the number of hours that you may be scheduled for under the terms of an employment contract or union agreement, or (2) your treatment constitutes some form of actionable discrimination.
M.D., Member, California and New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 6 years ago | Contributor
As a general rule, there is no law mandating how many hours that an employee can be scheduled to work. Accordingly, you must report to your workplace for the hours that you have been given. If you cannot or do not want to, then you must use any available PTO (i.e. vacation time) that you have in order to cover your time out. Your only protection here is if (1) you have a limit as to the number of hours that you may be scheduled for under the terms of an employment contract or union agreement, or (2) your treatment constitutes some form of actionable discrimination.
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