"Doris Night" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 8 Aug 2016 17:45:15 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
>>And you totally misread what I said. She WAS on the schedule so they
>>expected her to show up for work. But then when she did show up, they'd
>>say
>>that they decided they didn't need her so she should go home. That's when
>>I
>>told her that she should call first and confirm that she would in fact be
>>needed. But she was told that she could not do this. And no, I did not ask
>>the establishment about this. I know quite a few people who were employed
>>by
>>them. This is what they did.
>
> In Ontario, a shift has to be a minimum of 3 hours. If you are
> scheduled to work, you have to be paid for that amount of time.
> Goofing around by sending people home, as you described, isn't alowed.
> I'm surprised that the U.S. doesn't have similar labour regulations.

Well, it's not that way here. They certainly can send people home here,
although where I have worked, we had enough employees that it was easy
enough to find one that willingly wanted to go home. If we weren't getting
many sales, they'd just start asking around to see who wanted to leave.

As for the US, I don't think there are things in terms of employment that
cover the whole country. It is pretty much a state by state thing. For
instance, here in WA, restaurant workers must be paid minimum wage. That is
not the case in many other states. But here, farm workers under the age of
16 do not have to be paid minimum wage.