Author: Olivia

I am a photographer in A major US city. I work for a major e-commerce fashion brand. I am on salary. For the past 8 months, my direct manager has allowed me to leave early once I finish the shot list for the day. Their boss has recently come back from pregnancy leave, and has decided this is unacceptable. (She works from home lol, and we are in the office 5 days a week lol). She has literally told us she won’t increase the work we are doing, and there isn’t any busy work for us to do, but we must be there until 5. This means I take a 1 hour lunch, on top of another 30 minute break, and literally just sit around and fuck off ready to pull my hair out. Is this legal? If I’m on salary, can I leave when the job is done, legally,…

My neighbor told me our mutual neighbor gets paid $20/hr working at the local Lowe’s in “home and decor department” and sometimes greets and she just started a little under a year ago. Does this sound right?Philly location.

Having this discussion at a union shop I work at. In some ways us salary is worst off We have no job protection. No 1.5x or double time pay No representation etc Increased responsibilities. Smaller profit sharing bonuses. Unpaid OT. In fact the fastest way to fire an union employee at my job is to offer him or her a salary job and fire them that 2ay.

Manager: changes my shifts without notice or me agreeing Me: you changed my shift and put me to work on 3rd Sunday this month I am not attending this shift Manager: I didnt change them Me: sends printscreen of the version history showing his name and date he changed it Manager: I do not appreciate you sending those screenshots, this is your shift now and try find someone to swap it Me: yeah sure it is my shift and I will definitely not call in sick on that day…

I've been looking for new work and speaking to a few recruitment agencies. One of them asked me what I wanted to be paid for a job and I told them. He then asked what I was on currently and I refused. When he pressed me I asked why it was relevant and what advantage or disadvantage would it give to reveal it to a potential company. He just said it was part of the form. The same job I do elsewhere pays 20% more (as my company hasn't matched market rates for 2 years) but I'm afraid if I tell recruiters my current wage I'll be short selling myself. I've often ccepted below the top wage due to a perceived lack of experince but I'm now in a position of being confident in what I do and have the experience so won't accept anything other than the top wage.