Is it legal for your employer to try and force you to work extra hours? They literally keep soft threatening to no give me my well deserved raise because im not “Stepping up” enough – I.E. Im not Working more hours than im scheduled to work…Now, u may be thinking,” Well if u want more u have to work for more”…Well Ive been with my company for about 3 Years and and JUST NOW finally qualifying for a raise, And i mean, i didnt even get a cost of living raise for any of the pat years ive been at this place crazily enough. Theyre also trying to hang a promotion over my head. Heres the problem tho. someone at my job has said promotion already stacked with several raises, She has been there the same amount of time as me, Comes to work in sweatpants daily, and refused to work extra hours on the regular and everyones perfectly fine with it. But when i say no, I get threats and people lying on me. I literally requested friday off, On monday and got approved, then my Pos boss told HR that i didnt show up to work on friday, Wish i wouldve gotten the request in writing.