Employee Who Writes the Schedule Gives Themself Preferential Treatment
My question involves employment and labor law for the state of: Georgia
It seems obviously ethically wrong to allow an employee who has a vested interest in creating the work schedule (in this case, for tipped bartenders) to write the schedule for a group of employees, including themselves. However, are there any legal implications/protections against this since the individual making the schedule is writing it in such a way that they financially benefit almost three fold over the other bartenders who are not receiving high-income shifts?
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whoever the boss says gets to make the schedule gets to make the schedule. There are no rules or laws requiring anybody to be scheduled for any particular time. They can give everybody the week off or make them work 24/7 and there is nothing illegal about it. It is a business decision and the law doesn't care.
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Unless you could show a pattern of discrimination based on age, race, sex, etc., correct? Then it could become a legal issue, no?
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yes but you said nothing of the sort in your original post.
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I apologize, it only occured to me after the fact. I am working on a thesis and at times vetting comes in pieces!
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I apologize, it only occured to me after the fact. I am working on a thesis and at times vetting comes in pieces!
..so this is a homework assignment?
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wrong on your ethical conclusion & no on anything further wrong with it
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masters thesis :) so yes, I suppose that could be considered homework.
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Then really - you need to be doing your own research, not asking a forum where volunteers spend time trying to help those with actual real legal issues.
No offense :)
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Well this is off the original topic, but these are real legal issues that came out of a survey of employees from 45 different restaurants. The incentive for participating in the survey is that each participant would an analysis of the materials I found that addresses their issue. Sometimes (twice, out of the 331 problems that are being broken down) there is little to no information and after days of reading statutes, codes, and case law I come up with nothing, I often use forums as a quick way to get some direction before I either book an appointment with a professor or pay to have an attorney consult. It's just a first step which is simply more efficient and often times even more effective because multiple people can be consulted at once. I actually got this idea FROM a professor and find it to be helpful more often than not. So if you are somehow worried that the advice is "wasted" on someone who should be doing their own research, maybe you should consider that the completed thesis is ultimately meant to help people, and in this case, shape policy, and not be so unwilling to provide assistance to someone even though the topic at hand isn't specifically my problem.
But don't worry, I won't be utilizing or recommending this forum anymore, my brief experience has shown that the responses are smug, never include references, and are too often condescending.