Category: Antiwork

If I didn't know any better, I'd say our government (US) wants to go to war with Russia. But why would they want that when the economy is failing and poverty, as well as labor reform activism, is on the rise?? ~(Note sarcasm)~

So my job is a salary position. I noticed we shut down for covid for the long weekend but they still expected me to come in and clean and plan I said no. In my contract it does not state anywhere that they dock our pay for days we don't come in. When she said she's logging my hours I was confused because I thoroughly looked through my contract. I have also heard that if you do quit you have to pay your last pay check back. There is no way this is legal??

Hello, Antiwork. I'm curious about my state's labor laws regarding breaks. At my workplace, the management usually allow us to take a single half-hour break on an eight-hour shift. According to websites regarding Wisconsin's labor laws, employers are not required to provide a single break to any employees over the age of eighteen. Is this true, and, if it is true, how the hell is this legal?

I'm almost at my wit's end with this. Luckily , I work from home these days, but my heart still cares about front line workers. What do we do about these customers assaulting workers/nurses/waiters/ etc? And how do we address the managers that give free food to these felonious assholes? I tried to start a movement to talk about this a decade ago, and my fellow workers had more smoke for me than the men assaulting them. I am not sure how things can change if workers get angry when you suggest punishing people who threaten to rape them, instead of being mad at the lunatic threatening to rape them!

I work at a restaurant where every time you clock out a manager has to join you and swipe their card for “break rule violation.” Meaning they have to legally input a thirty minute break in your hours even though you didn't take one. After a while I was thinking about this and realized I've never clocked out for a thirty minute break during my shift because no manager has ever asked if I wanted/needed one after the 5 hour mark unless I'm working a double. This makes a little more sense for the servers as they can't exactly leave their tables randomly for thirty minutes but as I'm just starting out on the host stand I started becoming really annoyed by this as I'm not making any money from tips and my hourly rate is just above minimum. So now during my 5-7 hour shifts where I work the…