I can understand an employer wanting their employees to take a break in order to rejuvenate themselves, but can they force them to? I was just told that after working for 8 hours and not taking a lunch break that I would be getting deducted 1 hour of pay from my total time worked. I'm just curious if that's even legal.
I’ve been dealing with mental health issues since I was little, unfortunately I’ve had no therapy to deal with them. Since covid, my mental health has nosedived and I’m unable to function at work. (It’s strongly suspected I also have ADD.) I come home crying regularly. I try and stretch my breaks to get more precious minutes of sanity and silence. I fear constant remarks on how I’m not pulling my weight. I come to work depressed, and leave sore and exhausted- but of course no one cares as long as you make them their money. Well yesterday was the final straw for me, apparently. The assistant manager pulled camera evidence of me leaving my workstation and not returning for 20 minutes, and gifted me three write ups for time theft and breach of trust for denying I was in the breakroom, where they thought I had gone. They laughed…
This subreddit is awesome. But some of the things I see folks commenting here don't really make much sense to me based on the workplace experience I have. I'm specifically talking about the denied PTO/Vacation/Day(s) off threads. And more specifically the replies stating the employee should just let the employer know they are unavailable or will still not be attending work on said days. Are you all collectively not working jobs that have a penal system for absences? Where I work, we have a points system. Call off, one point. Late, half point. No call absence, 3 points. You hit 8 and you're gone. I'm curious because I have never had the option of just not getting paid for the day and that's the end of it.
I had two jobs. I worked full time at a retail store as a shift lead (Pet Supplies Plus) I hated it, I found a second job (flight school) and went to part time for the retail one. We got a new manager at the pet store maybe a few months into this of me working reduced hours as shift lead. I work with her once and she takes me to the back to have a talk to get to know me. She knows I was a previous store manager at a similar retail store that closed down due to covid. She asks me questions about issues I thought were a problem and I answer honestly. She also tells me it seems I don’t want to work because I’ve taken all of my PTO at once (80hrs) but it’s only because the previous manager never put it in, and you…
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Hi all, I work in CA, USA, for a large corporation. That’s all the details I’m able to divulge. Where can I anonymously report for possible labor law violations? I was at another location helping out (not by choice but I was compensated OT) and the staffer said she is told not to clock out for 30 minute lunches and just keeps working her whole shift most of the time. Even if there’s no “paper trail” of this conversation, I’m guessing it will show on the time card statement because CA accounts for meal period violations.