Author: Olivia

I clock in on time, take my appropriate breaks, and lunch. However, when it comes time to do my job, I simply don’t do it. I expected to be caught and fired within a couple weeks, but it has been months now and I’m still flying under the radar. I am technically present at my desk for my job (remote) but I simply don’t do my job. Can I be sued for time theft or would they have a difficult time proving anything?

Hi there, I'm 33, I have a BA, and master's degree from one of the top 8 business schools in my country (Germany)…and since I was 27, when I finished my education, I wasn't able to keep a job for more than 6 months. I've fought like a wild animal to get something started, I've tried so many times, I've endured, I've tried to fight against myself …but it never works. Working with other people, in an office, in objectives-oriented jobs, is too much for me: I've dealt with panick attacks during the last 6 years, long periods of unemployment that I was able to cover up smartly, suicidal thoughts whenever I'm working, and so on and so on… My life is otherwise ok, I love socializing outside of work, which is weird, I know. It's not even working that poses a problem, I'm perfectly fine with it, it's the…

this past week my team found out that our working hours are changing from monday-sunday 2pm-2am (afternoon and night shift) to monday-friday 3pm-midnight (whole team on the same shift). i live in czech republic, where working past 10pm and on weekends legally grants you extra pay from your employer, and losing this bonus will end up in our netto salaries being 10-15% lower than what we've been used to for the past year. we have sent a joint email to our manager when we found out about this to ask whether there are plans to adjust our salary to make up for this loss – no response. on top of that, this change also means we now have significantly less flexibility with our time than we had prior to this. every performance review i've had in the time i've been here, i've been repeatedly told that i'm a valuable member…

Hello, short long story. I work at a cybersec company as a junior, been there for 5 months, first IT job. All they make us do is join useless meet videocalls at ANY possible time of the day to watch our senior do all the work, so we gotta pay attention to our phones in case they decide to make a meet at any given point of the day.  We communicate through our personal cellphones instead of having something more private like a Microsoft teams group, so I receive messages from work all day on my personal cellphone. My dad happened to have cancer, which lead me to have to take care of him a lot lately, sometimes i have to sleep at the hospital and sometimes when he's home i don't have sleep either in case he needs something. I told my supervisor what was going on and why…

I work in a federally regulated industry (inter-provincial/international transportation). As such, I’m covered under the Canada Labour Code. According to recent the changes in the Labour Code, workers in federally regulated industries are entitled to 10 paid sick days per year (see: https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/news/2022/12/10-days-of-paid-sick-leave-now-in-force-for-nearly-1million-federally-regulated-workers-across-canada.html). This morning I emailed our HR/office manager asking what these changes will mean for the company. She replied to the email indicating that there would be no changes. Since the company does not and never has offered paid sick days, this seems to indicate that the company will be willfully violating federal labour law. I’m interested in these sick days because a) we’ve been forced into the office since Day 1 of COVID because only the owners are allowed WFH, and b) if I’m entitled to paid days off, I plan on using every one of them. Thoughts?

I work at a theatre as a server. I go into theaters and take orders for food and what not, and this pays $7.25/h in Tennessee plus tips. At my theater we have people whose job it is to come in and clean the theatre before the next show, but they are only here on the weekends as set by mgmt. To clarify mgmt could have them come in on the weekdays, but choose not to. On the weekdays the servers are expected to go in and clean the theatres ourselves. The problem is that the people who come in and clean get payed twice my base pay almost and is a whole other job under this employer's roof. What is the legality of making the servers do someone else's job for less in the state of Tennessee.