Can You Be Required to Work a Shift That You Weren't Scheduled for
My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: South Carolina.
After seeing the schedule, a co-worker asked me at the beginning of the week if I could work her Easter shift for her. I told her that it would put me into overtime and that she would have to approve it with the manager. The manager asked me if I would be willing to trade one of my regular shifts in order to pick it up. I said no. At that point she told me that over-time would be okay.
Then, on Tuesday I was told that overtime was not okay. So I told my co-worker that I could not work for her.
When I checked the schedule as I left tonight I noticed that my next shift has been crossed out by my manager and I have been written in to work for my co-worker on Sunday. I did not agree to this. Nor did anyone even mention it to me. I make more money on Fridays than I do on Sundays. I am not willing to take a pay-cut in order to help out this particular co-worker. Do I have a case?
I was written into the schedule mid-week after the schedule had already been posted for days. I am pretty sure this is an act of Favortism from this particular manager toward my co-worker. She wants the day off and my manager is dead-set on giving it to her, whether I like it or not. Mind you, no one would ever do anything like this for me.
Do I have a case? At the very least can I refuse to work the shift for her without fear of termination?
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You can refuse to work the shift.
They can legally fire you if you refuse to work the shift.
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In general an employer may schedule an employee to work whatever the schedule the employer wants. All that the law requires is that the employer pay the employee for the time worked, and pay overtime if the employee works more than 40 hours in a work week. There are some limited exceptions to this, but you have not provided any facts that suggest any of those would apply here.
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Do I have a case? No
At the very least can I refuse to work the shift for her without fear of termination? No.
Your hours are what your boss says they are. If this week the boss wants you to work Sunday, you work Sunday.
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Do I have a case? No
At the very least can I refuse to work the shift for her without fear of termination? No.
Your hours are what your boss says they are. If this week the boss wants you to work Sunday, you work Sunday.
I was more specifically referring to the lack of any notice of any kind by my employer for me to work the shift. I had to find out via text from a coworker telling me that the manager was giggling about changing it and not telling me with other co-workers. If they hadn't texted me about it, I would not have even known about the schedule change.
Are employees not entitled to any notice of any kind of a schedule change mid-week at the whim of a manager? At least an hour's notice? What if they decide to write me in on my day off and I don't show up because nobody ever told me?
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Are employees not entitled to any notice of any kind of a schedule change mid-week at the whim of a manager?
Absent a contract to the contrary, your employer can call you into work at any time.
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What if they decide to write me in on my day off and I don't show up because nobody ever told me?
You can cross that bridge if and when you come to it.
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No. There is no law anywhere in the US that demands any particular notice before a change in shift.
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No. There is no law anywhere in the US that demands any particular notice before a change in shift.
Though California is trying.
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Yeah, well, California likes to be different.
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Yeah, well, California likes to be different.
And not always in a good way.