LABOR LAWS: Can I do something about my employer screwing me?

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: Tom
The OP has a valid point, working every day sucks. His schedule is much worse than working 60 hours in 5 days, imo.

And as many have pointed out, there are laws in some states to prevent it.

most laws prevent working 7 days a week and that is not the problem. he is working 6 days a week.

Never heard of laws outlawing working 7 days a week for adults. Are you talking only students?

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: Tom
The OP has a valid point, working every day sucks. His schedule is much worse than working 60 hours in 5 days, imo.

And as many have pointed out, there are laws in some states to prevent it.

most laws prevent working 7 days a week and that is not the problem. he is working 6 days a week.

Never heard of laws outlawing working 7 days a week for adults. Are you talking only students?

well it does depend on the job and area. someone posted a link to t hem.

I seem to recall that you need one day off a week.

 

[FoBoT]

the guy lives in virginia , lets check the dept. of labor website for VA

http://www.doli.virginia.gov/

http://www.doli.virginia.gov/whatwedo/labor_law/lla_faq.html

here are some of the FAQs

Does an employer have to provide employees breaks or a meal period?
No, unless the employee is under the age of 16.

Are there any restrictions as to how many hours an employee can be required to work or when he may work?
No, not after an employee attains his 16th birthday.

you need to either move to a state with different laws or get a new job

 

[Mill]

Toolbag. Working 6 days a week is nothing, and there SHOULD NOT be a labor law to protect you. If you don't like it find a new job.

 

[krunchykrome]

Um, I dont think they're violating any labor laws. LOL, they just taking advantage of you.

 

[ebaycj]

They are not putting you on 8 hour days because of breaks.

MOST State (possibly federal, I can't remember off the top of my head) laws REQUIRE employers to give you a 15 minute break per 4 hours, plus a 30 (sometimes 60) minute (usually unpaid) lunch if your shift is 6+ hours long.

So basically you are getting 5 hour shifts in order to maximize the amount of time you are working vs. the amount of break time that they have to pay you for. It's in line with maximizing corporate profits, and is therefore a good thing for the company.

You get screwed, too bad for you. Don't like it? Get a better job. Welcome to Capitalist America.



EDIT: I didn't see the Virginia labor laws posted above. They SUCK. Go find a better state to live/work in.

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

Originally posted by: BatmanNate

Originally posted by: PC Surgeon
Ok, so I've been working at this place for almost 3 months now. My normal schedule is 4-5 days a week 5hrs a day(I know, it's cheese). Anyway, I just got my schedule and they have me scheduled for next week for 6 days strait @ 5hrs a day. I told the Store manager about a month ago that if she wanted to give me more hours to make them 8hr days not 5hr. She went ahead and scheduled it that way anyways. To top it off, the end of this week end today and I have to work. So that means 7 days strait. I like the people I work with, but I like my free time more.

There has to be a labor law out there to stop them.

Anyone know what I can do about this?

PLEASE HELP THE LITTLE MAN FIGHT BACK! 🙁

This is retarded. Labor law to stop them? Because you're working 30 hours a week in voluntary contractual employement? You poor soul. Get a better job if you don't like the hours, otherwise suck it up and enjoy your cash. Please.

QFMT

 

[mugs]

Wow................

 

[Zenmervolt]

Only California prohibits you from working 7 days straight. No state prevents 6 days straight. None. There's no applicable labor law in Virginia as long as you're getting the appropriate break/lunch time and paying you for overtime in the event that you work it. (Though at only 35 hours in 7 days, I doubt you'll ever hit overtime.)

Suck it up and be happy you only have to work 35 hours in a week.

ZV

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: PC Surgeon
My question was, is there anything in the labor laws that bars them from making you work more than 5 days a week.

Of course not. Stop being a candy-ass, and either talk to your boss, or quit. Some people work three times as much as you do without complaining!

Oh, and learn how to spell "straight."

I'd write a nicer response, but your posts come across as horribly immature, so...

Originally posted by: PC Surgeon
Well am I not singled out? I think so. I have other schedules showing that I was not scheduled more than 5 days, going back the length of my tenure. It also shows NO ONE else worked that many either. So to say its not discimination, I would like to know why not.

As for talking to the management, I'm already going to do that.

Has it occurred to you that MAYBE an unusual circumstance came up, they had to have someone work extra days, and you just happened to be picked? Luck of the draw. You must really have a massive ego if you think that asking a grunt employee to work a couple extra hours is discrimination:laugh:

Getting the short end of the stick != discrimination. It happens to ALL of us sometimes. Are we all "discriminated against?"

Life's not fair. Learn to deal with it without crying. PLEASE.

 

[CrimsonWolf]

Originally posted by: PC Surgeon

Originally posted by: sao123

Originally posted by: PC Surgeon

Originally posted by: KK
where does it say that you can't work 7 days a week? there isn't any labor laws that say you can't. Grow a set and confront your boss if you don't like your schedule. bitching and moaning here won't get you very far.

My question was, is there anything in the labor laws that bars them from making you work more than 5 days a week.


"Bitching and moaning here won't get you very far" -

I'm not bitching and moaning, I'm asking for advice.

To anyone else who has a lame/smart ass/BS remark, do not post. If you have usefull information then please by all means enlighten me!

No, there is not.
There are labor laws for the following, none of which fit your description...

Minors may not work more than 30 hours per week.
Drivers & Train Operators may not driver for more than 12 hours without a mandatory 8 hour rest.
Individuals paid on an hourly pay rate (who are not members of management) must be paid time and a half for all hours worked over 40 per week.
Individuals paid on an hourly pay rate (who are not members of management) must be paid double time if they are called to work on a scheduled off day or holiday.

Well there is ONE thing I may be able to use. The schedule I have, show that I am the ONLY one working more than 5 days! Discrimination?

Discrimination over scheduling? Unless you can thoroughly prove some underlying racial/gender, etc motivation, then that will never work. It sounds like they needed someone to work a couple extra hours and you were the unlucky one. If you force that discrimination issue, they'll probably just fire you/lay you off eventually. Especially if VA is a right-to-work state.

If talking to management works, then that's awesome. If you're polite and non-confrontational, you'll probably get somewhere. If it doesn't, then either suck it up or quit the job. You don't really have any recourse against them.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: CrimsonWolf
If talking to management works, then that's awesome. If you're polite and non-confrontational, you'll probably get somewhere. If it doesn't, then either suck it up or quit the job. You don't really have any recourse against them.

Judging from this thread, I think that the chances of him being "polite and non-confrontational" are slim indeed.

ZV

 

[sswingle]

Kids these days...they need to learn how to work a 40 hour week.

 

[Chryso]

Time to grow up.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: PC Surgeon
My question was, is there anything in the labor laws that bars them from making you work more than 5 days a week.

Of course not. Stop being a candy-ass, and either talk to your boss, or quit. Some people work three times as much as you do without complaining!

Oh, and learn how to spell "straight."

I'd write a nicer response, but your posts come across as horribly immature, so...

yeap. as soon as he brought up getting a lawyer then claiming "discrimination" he lost any nice response's.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: waggy

well it does depend on the job and area. someone posted a link to t hem.

I seem to recall that you need one day off a week.

it may based on location, but that is also a common fallacy.

days working is not a basis for most of our laws...hours really are; as it should be.

 

[Antisocial Virge]

Don't feel real sorry for yea. I my regular 40 hours, 8 hours on Saturday. Then Sunday from 8am till 12:30 pm and then 11:30 pm to 4:30 am then did my regular work day on no sleep. Boss said I never had to but it was not too bad. I did sleep for 13 hours afterwards though 🙂

 

[tbike06]

Originally posted by: Chryso
Time to grow up.

 

[AlienCraft]

She's doing you like that because you're not a full time employee.
You're hosed.
Welcome to The New World Order.

 

[AreaCode707]

Originally posted by: AlienCraft
She's doing you like that because you're not a full time employee.
You're hosed.
Welcome to The New World Order.

Having to work a few extra days one time isn't "hosed". Nor is the management being unreasonable.

 

[Horus]

rant

Umm. Labor laws say you have to have 2 days off if you work 5 in a row. You guys are a bunch of PRICKS for acting all high and mighty.

"OOOOH, LOOK AT ME, I WORK A GO-NOWHERE DESK JOB 9-5 monday to friday, PC SURGEONS DOESN'T KNOW WHAT HARD WORK IS OMGWTFBOOBIES."

He might work retail. Retail is hard because we have to deal with you asshats after you're off your shift, and feel the need to dump your GIGANTIC AMOUNT OF EDUCATION AND ANGST on us.

"OMG, WHY DIDN'T YOU KNOW THAT THIS TONER IS MADE FROM COLOUR 18? OMG IDIOT!"

/rant.

 

[Mday]

You're in the US. And the US does not have real broadbased laws to protect you from hours or days worked unless you happen to luck out locally.

Federal: defines FEDERAL minimum wage, federal holidays
State: defines STATE minimum wage (at least the Fed rate), state holidays (varies), overtime statutes, and other misc things that are not consistent state to state
City\County may have other statutes.

this is the real problem. it's state based, so you'll have to read stuff from virginia (original poster).

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too bad you're not in a developing country, europe, or asia... where laws DO protect you from days and hours worked within a week. GG US...

 

[Trey22]

You get what you deserve... especially if you came to OT to ask for "advice".

3 options:

Grow up

Grow a pair

Quit

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
the guy lives in virginia , lets check the dept. of labor website for VA

http://www.doli.virginia.gov/

http://www.doli.virginia.gov/whatwedo/labor_law/lla_faq.html

here are some of the FAQs

Does an employer have to provide employees breaks or a meal period?
No, unless the employee is under the age of 16.

Are there any restrictions as to how many hours an employee can be required to work or when he may work?
No, not after an employee attains his 16th birthday.

you need to either move to a state with different laws or get a new job

No breaks? What kind of braindead industrial-revolutionist wrote that law?

 

[miri]

Originally posted by: ViRGE

Originally posted by: FoBoT
the guy lives in virginia , lets check the dept. of labor website for VA

http://www.doli.virginia.gov/

http://www.doli.virginia.gov/whatwedo/labor_law/lla_faq.html

here are some of the FAQs

Does an employer have to provide employees breaks or a meal period?
No, unless the employee is under the age of 16.

Are there any restrictions as to how many hours an employee can be required to work or when he may work?
No, not after an employee attains his 16th birthday.

you need to either move to a state with different laws or get a new job

No breaks? What kind of braindead industrial-revolutionist wrote that law?

thats just how it is in Virginia, i lived there for over 10 years, waiters there still get paid $2.13 a hour from their employer

When I moved to California I was shocked, you have to take a break if you work 6 hours, In Virginia I could work 12 straight without a break. Also if you work over 8 hours a day in California its overtime.

Virginia favors the employer, not the employee