Long story short, I stood up for my legal rights. Company begrudgingly agreed to pay me what I asked for as an attempt to keep me quiet.
During the meeting where they tried to essentially bribe me, one of my bosses said, “Really, these rules are only for single moms who can’t miss a day of work, not for people who make $MyCurrentHourlyRate.” I did not respond.
Second boss (trust fund baby) chimes in with, “Yeah, while we are going to make this right with you, this law is to protect minimum wage workers, like people working at McDonald’s.”
I didn’t know that classism was an excuse to treat employees illegally! Amazing. The more you know, am I right? /s
It’s so funny though, I don’t find any of those details on my state’s Department of Labor website.
I told them breaking the law was a legal liability for their company (obviously?). I’ll wait a couple of months until they think they’re safe and have forgotten about this incident, then report the shit out of them if they haven’t restructured their company in accordance with the law.
Time will tell! It feels good to have a fully loaded legal gun pointed at my boss though 🙂 all I have to do is wait for the perfect moment and pull the trigger.