I work for an organization in California. I have a whole team of part-time staff that actuality need to be full time.
I’ve been petitioning for almost half a year (since I’ve been hired) that my whole team needs to be full time to fulfill the duties that is expected of us from the higher ups. However they’ve been used to exploiting my team prior to bringing me on and think that they can continue.
My CEO has told me to my face benefits are expensive and before I was hired my team was “encouraged” to work through their lunch where another higher-up would manually plug in a lunch break and move their overtime to other days. I put a stop to that immediately once I was hired. Quoting labor laws. Now everyone is “forced” to take breaks and lunches and I told me team if another department ask anything of them to either tell them their on break/lunch or clock in and do the job and note why they had to clock back in. The CEO stops asking them to do extra tasks and now makes sure to not bother them on their lunch.
With everything we are still super busy and short staff right now, and my team is working more than full time hours because of it. I read on here that if part-time staff work full time for a certain amount of days they can demand full time legally.
Is this true? I am trying to find where I read that and I am also looking into California law. I thought it might be easier to ask here too.
This whole team deserves full time and are working overtime- the CEO has already approved it and suggested it “like last year”. If this is the case it is possibly for me to use this to get the whole team full time status?