Cutting Hours to Prevent Overtime
My question involves employment and labor law for the state of: Virginia.
I am an hourly employee with an understanding of im gauranteed 40 hours a week on the shift so any time before or after any shift is considered overtime and I was on call and working from 1-10. I was called in early to help out with some overloaded calls from the labor day weekend and around mid day of my shift 5PM. I was working on a job at that very moment. my boss said you can go home we dont need you. I understand that if theres no work they can send you home but I was in the middle of a job and he said go home. Can he legally send me home mid shift with the reasons of he needed to cut the overtime i earned between 8AM-1AM? If so or not is it possible to send me a link or an article for virginia labor law that states this.. I have tried looking at some websites but I wasnt able to get a justifiable answer. Is this a state were they have to pay x hours of after i get sent home?
Re: Cutting Hours to Prevent Overtime
Of course they can. They know what their bank account looks like, and what they can afford. Unless you have signed a contract which states otherwise, there is no law that guarantees a specific number of laws each week. Since most laws tell you what is ILLEGAL, there is nothing to cite to tell you that this is legal.
No, they don't have to pay you for hours you don't work.
Re: Cutting Hours to Prevent Overtime
It's not that there is a law granting them permission to do this. It's that there isn't a law prohibiting them from doing so.
This is legal in all 50 states, not just Virginia.