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Forced to work in restaurant with confirmed COVID

I make below minimum wage flipping burgers. I only do this to have enough hours/months to get unemployment checks (sorry not sorry). I've been working for 4 months, I have 2 months left until I'm moving to another city (literally only to have a valid reason to get away from this work). But I just don't know how to keep going. I'm supposed to work 30h/w but I always do overtime, I've worked around 40h/w since I've started. The shifts are not 8h however, which means I've been working 6-7 days every week. Now everyone else is sick in COVID but they are still at work (while COVID positive and showing symptoms, no face masks, MAKING FOOD), because they are forced to. We are also encouraged to not test for COVID. We are severely understaffed and have been since i started. We don't get extra money for being forced to…


I make below minimum wage flipping burgers. I only do this to have enough hours/months to get unemployment checks (sorry not sorry). I've been working for 4 months, I have 2 months left until I'm moving to another city (literally only to have a valid reason to get away from this work). But I just don't know how to keep going.

I'm supposed to work 30h/w but I always do overtime, I've worked around 40h/w since I've started. The shifts are not 8h however, which means I've been working 6-7 days every week.

Now everyone else is sick in COVID but they are still at work (while COVID positive and showing symptoms, no face masks, MAKING FOOD), because they are forced to. We are also encouraged to not test for COVID. We are severely understaffed and have been since i started. We don't get extra money for being forced to work either (we are making between 7-12 dollars an hour, but since i live in Sweden we have 30% tax, which makes it more like 4-7$/h).

Currently I'm severely depressed and don't know what to do about my situation. I'm just trying to get through this. I'm planning on turning in my resignation next week (but I will be forced to work for 2 more months because that's the length of our notice period). As soon as I'm out of there I'm planning on telling on them. I'm not sure how though, do you guys have any tips? Surely this has got to be illegal???

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