Just looking for some advice…
I work in specialized medical testing. Very high demand, decent pay, but the tests are a cash cow for providers so lots of exploitative employment practices bc we are where they can save money.
So, get hired last Dec make sure my contract is good, protects me. Spend 9 months traveling 2.5hrs daily each-way to their remote facility, providing excellent care, minding my own business. Oct they terminate me with 2wks notice due to “misjudged market”. Don't pay out anything they are required to (pto, 1st check, bonus, not even my full last check). I immediately file a wage claim with the workforce commission.
Today I finally get a call from WC, I find out they have no authority to even enforce my employment contract. They can't recover the 1st check bc it's over 180 days from the claim, won't recover PTO bc it has to state in the contract they will pay it out after they fire you for them to even try, won't recover my bonus bc my employer, sent a schedule which shows I saw less then 8 pts in the months I claimed. Since I can't provide equally relevant “proof” (you can't keep your pt information privately outside of work, it's a violation of HIPAA), they ignored that part also. So from a 10k wage claim, I MAY see $1500 in wages, but probably not bc they are “allowed” to change my pay from salary to hourly to pay me out less then in my contract….bc they already fired, me so it's legal. Yes, exact quote from WC rep.
I'm gonna write our Labor Commissioner, but frankly I'm not hopeful at all. Any advice for me to recover any of this?
Fuck work. I legitimately have a GLOWING personal review from my direct supervisor from this job, and they still fucked me in every way that could. Your company will NEVER be on your side, and I knew that, I just thought the labor board would have been on the side of … you know, the laborer. The disillusionment continues.