Author: Olivia

Is this illegal in the USA? Where can I reference this? Thanks.

I was offered a big promotion, new title, huge responsibilities for overseeing the on-boarding of all clients in North America and developing all of the processes to do so. No bump in compensation. This man looked me in the eye and said he doesn't want people to stay for money, he wants them to stay because they support the vision. Let me know when the vision puts food on the table.

For a little context: I (16M) work in a center for children with developmental disabilities. In normal work places, smoking in the bathrooms is a bad move. Here, it’s a HUGE no-no. Smoke can linger for a long time and in a 23 mile radius, if my memory serves me correctly. Even the idea could get you in trouble, whether it’s corrective action or straight up termination. So, I told my co-workers I was going to use the bathroom, and I went and did my business, as you do. I had recently started menstruating, so it took a little longer than normal. All said and done, accounting for the few minutes it took to walk to and from the bathroom (it being all the way down a flight of stairs), it took about 10 minutes. I walk back onto the unit – not my usual unit with my usual coworkers,…

Just before merit pay increases are being decided a company (that will not be named) sent out a “Total Compensation Statement”. This statement is lists base pay (wages), bonus pay (OT, bonuses, vacation), employer provided benefits (medical/dental/life), and retirement benefits (Medicare, social security, 401k, 401k match). The statement adds them all up and calls this the “total rewards”. In this case, they appear to have inflated the numbers. The retirement benefit category includes not only the employer FICA matched Medicare, social security, and 401k, but the amounts the employee had deducted from their own paycheck. The formula used to calculate total rewards is completely additive, meaning these deductions are being counted twice. e.g. In effect, someone making $100k and having $30k of that chopped off from Medicare, social security is being presented as receiving $160k in compensation from the company ($100k + $30 from taxes + $30 from employer FICA…

Hi everyone. Looking for some advice. I just took a job that was 50KM from home each way. I was promised 2 days a week work from home which would allow me to save about 40 bucks a week ( that's huge ). Without working from home those two days I will be in the hole about 78 dollars every month. When I explained to my new boss that the reason I took this job was because of the work from home offer he then went on to explain that there was a potential for that and that it was not promised up front. People… If you own a business please don't be a piece of scum. Do not trick people into taking you're jobs by offering them work from home and then pulling it back. After quitting my other job I was then informed of this. Welcome to the…