Recently our company required all employees to stay past their shift due to threatening storms. Can they mandate this?
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Recently our company required all employees to stay past their shift due to threatening storms. Can they mandate this?
Although we were paid for the time gathered in the company’s two ‘safe shelters’,
I really wanted to leave and was told I could not. Is this legal?
Asked on July 8, 2016 under Employment Labor Law, Tennessee
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 8 years ago | Contributor
An employer can require employees to stay or work late for any reason--employers have free rein to set hours and/or to change or extend them at will. If all hourly employees were paid for all hours worked, including these additional hours, and also paid overtime if they worked more than 40 hours that week, this was legal.
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