Hello everyone, My wife is 25 weeks pregnant and she was not feeling good at all at work the other day. She wanted to leave work early for feeling sick and they said they will write her up. We both live in the United States in the East Coast. What are some of the rights and things I can help her with to defend herself or any illegal actions that they are doing? Any help is much appreciated, thank you. ***Update: They tired to get her to sign the write up and she felt her heart racing and baby becoming upset. She left the building.
Month: August 2024
I just recently started at a retail store. The week before I started the company I work for implemented a point system. None of the senior associates enjoy it. Calling out for a day is a full point, leaving early or coming in late results in a half point being added to your account. If you’re hospitalized and can’t attend work you must provide a doctors note which will excuse every day you were absent but you still accrue a point for your entire hospital stay(so if you were out for, let’s say, four days you’d only get one point for the whole hospital stay). If you accrue more than five points during your first 30 days it’s termination but after your first 30 days your point threshold gets bumped to 17 points instead of five. The only way to get a point taken from your record is to go…
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Poke in the eye for Elon
A former Twitter/X employee has been awarded a record €550,000 in compensation for unfair dismissal as he was fired for refusing to “check” a box agreeing to unspecified changes to working conditions and pay. Full article here: https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2024/0813/1464761-record-award-of-550k-to-former-twitter-senior-executive/
Applied for a store assistant role at a large multinational supermarket only to be invited to do a one way video interview. Obviously I failed it, like usual, because I'm awkward, hate seeing myself on screen, find it really difficult to look into the camera, and have never had any acting lessons. I'm tired of being screened out just because I don't have a “big personality” / blessed with good looks. Even if I'd passed that I would have still had to pass numeric/verbal reasoning tests, an in person group assessment, and a trial shift just to get the job. Why do I have to jump through so many hoops just to get the lowest level job in the company? Trying to find a job whilst unemployed is so degrading and every time I'm out of work, job hunting feels even harder and more competitive than the last time…
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A Worker’s Guide to Direct Action
The freshest force in American politics wears striped socks, has fire-engine red hair and comes bearing french fries. McDonald’s for decades has exerted outsize influence on Americans’ meals. Now the Golden Arches are playing a growing role in politics, as the company and its franchisees spend millions of dollars on donations to candidates for public office and political action groups, and have engaged in lobbying in at least 10 states, an analysis of filings shows. In California, the Chicago-based company and its franchisees are seeking to unseat politicians who backed the state’s new minimum wage law for fast-food workers. The chain’s New York restaurant operators helped sponsor ads this year against state legislation that would allow workers to sue employers over wage, health and safety violations. McDonald’s has also hired a lobbyist in Colorado to track local legislation. McDonald’s has long lobbied on Capitol Hill on issues like nutrition and…
I own a completely bog-standard 1972 split level, in the south-central part of British Columbia. The city I live in has some of the highest housing costs in Canada. Only a few rare cities across the entire country have higher housing costs. I have been putting together a small building permit to replace windows. In doing so, I put in a request for any and all info that the city has on my property, to see the data that the city has. Lots of interesting things popped out, including when it was hooked up to city sewer, and so forth. But the most interesting? The original selling price. Back in 1972, the minimum wage was $2/hr. For a full-time job, you earned about $4,000/yr. Doesn’t seem like much, no? I meant, according to the flip side of the one-third rule, any home should cost no more than 3× your annual…
Hello All, I wanted to get some advice on what to say or do to get stress/disability leave. I did injure my back recently, and for the most part it has healed, but I haven't seen a doctor. As for stress leave, I am having some mental health issues both unrelated and related to work. I'm currently seeing a doctor, and am going to request for a note. But I am not sure how to navigate my doctor, and then navigate HR at my workplace (PS I work for a city government if that helps). Lastly, I want to take some vacation before my leave. I am not sure though if that is a good idea. As I will be using my vacation time most likely to find both a physical therapist, and a therapist as well as go on a trip ( I haven't travelled in 6 years). Work…
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I’ve never had a “good” job.
By good I mean a place I haven’t been disrespected and seen as a slave. A place without toxic people. A place that values my labor at least a little bit. A place where I’m not just meat for a grinder. All jobs suck dick, yes, even the “good” ones you go to skewl for. My uncle is a head engineer in his company and he’s literally never home. Work work work is all this damn life seems to be even for those who did everything the boomers told em to.