Office Quandries
Peter Rachleff
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Weekly Answers to Office Quandries |
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Professor Peter Rachleff |
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The people at the San Jose Labor Commission say it's okay for a company to
coerce its employees into working unpaid overtime. Also, confronting the
company's management about its violations of the Industrial Welfare
Council's wage orders does not offer protection against an "at will"
termination. Is this right or are they just stonewalling me?
Peter
Being forced into unpaid overtime? Take a number. |
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Uh, uh, uh, "'voluntary' unpaid overtime" is against the law. Slavery
was abolished in 1865. You need to draw a clear line here, Peter. Forget the
San Jose Labor Commission. Who appointed them? What law books are they going
by? You need to contact the California State Department of Labor and blow
the whistle on your crooked supervisor and his law-violating company. Period. Hey, you got canned anyway. So turn them in! There's a good chance
they'll be required to hire you back or pay you some damages. You've got the
clearest case I've seen yet in letters to "Punching Out." Go get 'em!