Antiwork

Hey there – I live in Australia which means that I get four weeks of paid leave per year. I want to take five weeks off in August. In my email requesting leave, is it better to just outright request the leave, or should I mention that I know I'm asking for more than I'm entitled to and say that I'm happy to take some of it unpaid? Sorry if this is a really dumb question, it's my first contract job and I'm still learning the ropes of requesting stuff like this / what the best procedure is and the unsaid protocols are.

I am looking for any advice (other than quitting.) The company that I work for acquired another company last year and started moving Associates from that location to my location. There are a million things that they have done wrong with this merger. Employees from this other facility are being bussed to our location (40ish minutes away from their previous facility). I think they pay $30 a month for this service. This equates to nowhere and tear on their vehicle, not having to pay for gas, and if for some reason the bus is late, they aren't given any points or consequences. The employees from this facility were given jobs that were similar to the jobs they had before. I work in quality and the people that we got in my department are often unable to handle the workload. The people from this facility were making several dollars an hour…

I was working as a leasing consultant temp and got fired from my assignment, after management encouraged me to apply for the full-time position with them. The reason for being let go was that I failed the pre-employment screening. My manager wasn’t provided details of how I failed due to confidentiality and said I would have to ask HR. After several days, I finally received a return call letting me know I had failed the pre-employment screening because of my poor credit. Yet 6 weeks prior, my credit report was checked in order for me to be hired as a temp. That’s when I realized, it’s because I filed for bankruptcy after I started working as a temp. I have no evictions. My credit was fantastic until I went through crisis after crisis during 2021-2022. I have been up to my eyeballs in debt just trying to survive. I made…

Employer is based in OH. Employees are classified as salaried non-exempt and there has never been an hourly monitoring system, until now. Employees would track hours done on single projects though. Many fellow employees worked over 40 hours for literal years without realizing they are entitled to OT. Employer also had this “bonus program” where employees would be paid in one-time bonus payments for work done. We were told not to enter in our hours for those bonus cases as the “hours did not count.” Even on regular case load, analysts will regularly work over 40 hour weeks. fast forward to employer putting in a clock in/out system. We are now being told not to work over 40 hours. Funny how all of a sudden not working over 40 is very important. How can I communicate with fellow employees that they were the victims of wage theft without even knowing…

I was being bullied from the first day there. People were being rude as hell because I needed help with training. Scrunching up their faces, yelling why do i need help, had a nasty attitude and tone when helping me. They would try to ask personal questions and would get offended that I would not answer. They would call me the r word, crazy, ugly, and two would call me fat. They would laugh at me talking. They always talked behind my back. They would make faces and side eye me. Everyone did this to me including management. Do I have a case?

I'm searching for a job and I know these days A LOT of employers are doing illegal stuff right out of the gate. Knowing how prevalent it is, I'm hoping someone has found a relatively short guide to the most common things employers do and what to do about it. For example, I know it's illegal for an employer to prohibit employees discussing pay. So if I see that, I know it's wrong, but what do I do? Do I sue? Do I report them to agency X and they fight for me? Do I report them AND hire my own lawyer? [I'm not looking to answer THIS question, just wanting something that would address this.] I'm hoping there's a website or even just a PDF or something that lists the top ways employers break the law and what to do about it. I'm wanting this so I can 1…

I’m a therapist at a more corporate center and put in my notice (my last day is now Thursday). I got an email from upper management/HR stating that I need to pay back 19 hours of PTO that I used this year and they are deducting this from my paycheck. Is that ethical?