I work at fedex and last year we had national holidays with holiday pay no problem. The drivers that deliver the packages get national holidays off, but the fedex warehouse still loads the trucks on every holiday. For the last two national holidays, the managers have told us not to come in on the holiday, even if you’re scheduled, but they pressure you to come in the day after even if it’s your day off. They make us load two days worth of packages in one morning because they don’t want to pay us time/and a half on the actual holiday.
Is this legal? The management at my warehouse already pushes illegal actions on us (skipping breaks, and pushing lunches to the last minute of the shift). And I’ve heard people say “they feel uncomfortable with somethings management is doing that’s boarder line illegal and they don’t want to be a part of it” they didn’t specify what else it was and I assume it might include the national holidays.
Again last year we did holidays and our employee agreement mentions the holidays we get paid extra, so is it legal for them to tell us not to come in so that they can cut costs?