Cheryl wrote:
>Julie Bove wrote:
>
> She'd get dressed, drive to work, only to have them tell her that she
> wasn't needed that day. When she tried to call ahead of time to see
> if she was needed, they told her that she wasn't allowed to call them.
> Or on the few occasions that she did work, they'd tell her that she
> had to stay late but wouldn't allow her to call and tell us this. This of
>course left her dad and I wondering where she was. The only thing we
> could do was drive there and see if her car was outside. He did call
> once to see if she was still there and she got in trouble for him
> calling.
>
>> I'm sorry Julie but I find this very hard to believe.

I don't believe that fercocktah fairytale either. Every place I ever
worked when my obligation was to report for work for the day if they
sent me home early they still had to pay me for the full day... same
as reporting for jury duty, if they don't need you and send you home
they still need to pay you for the entire day... that's why they went
to stand-by/call-in... make a computerized call early in the AM to
find out if they need you to report or not. I don't even want to
address that purjury about not being permitted to use the company
phone for contacting people who are expecting you at a particular time
when the company changes the work hours... it's illegal to hold an
employee past their regular time without prior agreed upon
concessions, that's imprisonment.
Where I last worked for 25 years when the company asked employees to
work overtime at the last minute we could agree or not but we usually
agreed as the compensation was getting paid double time, plus a paid
hour for mealtime, so out ot the 4 hours overtime (was always s4
hours) we only workd three hours and also quit a nalf hour early to
clean up the shop. Normally overtime was schedualed the week prior
and we were paid time and a half, but last minute we were paid double
time. We also were permitted reasonable use of company telephones at
any time... a few minutes to rearrange a car pool was very reasonable,
especially considering the company promoted car pooling. Weekend and
holiday work was always paid at double time. We also were paid our
regular pay for jury duty plus were permited to keep the jury duty pay
which was mere pennies. Even back in the early '60s when I worked in
the CA aircraft industry we were never denied use of company
telephones for conveying changes in work hours.. we were working three
shifts 24/7... they needed us.