Can employers do this?

[EweSheep]

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Yes, but it wasn't a major concern for us. Half of our seasonal labor was temp, the other half was folks who were there forever and knew what the job was, kept their head down and just did it. Drove nice cars, raised wonderful kids, wives all mingled and socialized. It was a good place, don't let me paint it so bleak, but some folks just can't work as hard as I needed them to. Darwin's law.

Boyd, I am ignorant about Darwin's law about working........some folks either put their noses to the grindstone or die trying. That is why the company has that 180 day probationary period so they can weed out the weakest from the strongest......I think roughly 7/8 of the temps working there, left after the first week of 120 to 130 degree temps inside the company....hubby makes sure everyone is well hydrated and NO arguing to him that you are ok when you are not. particuarly the females.

 

[redhen]

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Yes, but it wasn't a major concern for us. Half of our seasonal labor was temp, the other half was folks who were there forever and knew what the job was, kept their head down and just did it. Drove nice cars, raised wonderful kids, wives all mingled and socialized. It was a good place, don't let me paint it so bleak, but some folks just can't work as hard as I needed them to. Darwin's law.

Boyd, I am ignorant about Darwin's law about working........some folks either put their noses to the grindstone or die trying. That is why the company has that 180 day probationary period so they can weed out the weakest from the strongest......I think roughly 7/8 of the temps working there, left after the first week of 120 to 130 degree temps inside the company....hubby makes sure everyone is well hydrated and NO arguing to him that you are ok when you are not. particuarly the females.

Is he a supervisor or something?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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The union statements, if you can prove it, is the only thing that they are doing that is ILLEGAL. Other then that, an employer can do what ever they want.

I certainly agree that the union statements are illegal, but htere may be others that are as well. I believe that discriminating against those who request Sunday off for church is illegal (or Saturday or other Jewish holidays for Jews; same thing other religions). There may be laws relating to maximum hours that can be required in a week or day, and some jobs specifically MUST have rest time beforehand. Anything over a 40 hour week requires overtime pay; not sure when it goes from time & a half to double time.

Disallowing an on-the-job injured person to seek medical care or a doctor/hospital visit is almost certainly illegal, although the degree of injury may make a difference (for extremes, think papercut vs severed limb).

 

[EweSheep]

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Boyd, I am ignorant about Darwin's law about working........some folks either put their noses to the grindstone or die trying. That is why the company has that 180 day probationary period so they can weed out the weakest from the strongest......I think roughly 7/8 of the temps working there, left after the first week of 120 to 130 degree temps inside the company....hubby makes sure everyone is well hydrated and NO arguing to him that you are ok when you are not. particuarly the females.

Is he a supervisor or something?

No, just a lowely employee LOL! he cares about his co workers and had one temp went down on him, forced him to drink Gatorade when he said he drank those high caffeine drinks....bad idea for a very hot and humid building. Even his lead leader do NOT question when it comes down to someone going down with heat exhaustion.

 

[redhen]

Are there no EMT jobs in the area??

 

[EweSheep]

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I remember him saying on the first day of his job, a female employee had really bad stomach pains....you know what they did, they picked her up upon their shoulders, while she was screaming in pain. He didn't see her anymore after that...........as his experience as an EMT even with female problems, you dont hoast someone with abdominal pain over your shoulders and walk out to the waiting van! No ambulance either. The guy that picked her up is a basic EMT employed by the company. Who knows what kind of abdominal pains she had or how bad it would have been! He never knew what was the problem except her screaming my stomach hurts, etc. and she could not walk to the waiting van. Such idiots.

I have NO idea how many hours they can work in a day even they are working eight hours, moved into ten hours for such a LONG time. It has been dragging on too long since he started working there in May and they have been working overtime since then. That is why they are going mandatory hours, two to four MORE hours on top of what they are accustomed to. If no one do it, they will enforce it and if you do not report to work on the days they want you to work, including Sundays, either you are written up or FIRED....mostly the threats points FIRED. They even told the churchgoers, the company comes first, then your church!

Hubby on the other hand is not a churchgoer but he loves to have a Sunday's rest to spend some time with his family and have a good homemade cooked dinner with us.

 

[EweSheep]

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Not really....he is Basic EMT and he has applied all of the EMT jobs in the area. They preferred paramedics over basics. If they can not have paramedics, they will hire intermediate EMTs. So there are many basics running around (firefighters and police officers). So the ambulance companies only want the best for little money. It has been over three years since he was certified, applying to these jobs. Every one of them called him back saying thanks for the applications but we chose a paramedic to suit our needs.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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I remember him saying on the first day of his job, a female employee had really bad stomach pains....you know what they did, they picked her up upon their shoulders, while she was screaming in pain. He didn't see her anymore after that...........as his experience as an EMT even with female problems, you dont hoast someone with abdominal pain over your shoulders and walk out to the waiting van! No ambulance either. The guy that picked her up is a basic EMT employed by the company. Who knows what kind of abdominal pains she had or how bad it would have been! He never knew what was the problem except her screaming my stomach hurts, etc. and she could not walk to the waiting van. Such idiots.

I have NO idea how many hours they can work in a day even they are working eight hours, moved into ten hours for such a LONG time. It has been dragging on too long since he started working there in May and they have been working overtime since then. That is why they are going mandatory hours, two to four MORE hours on top of what they are accustomed to. If no one do it, they will enforce it and if you do not report to work on the days they want you to work, including Sundays, either you are written up or FIRED....mostly the threats points FIRED. They even told the churchgoers, the company comes first, then your church!

Hubby on the other hand is not a churchgoer but he loves to have a Sunday's rest to spend some time with his family and have a good homemade cooked dinner with us.

Thing is they cannot discriminate based upon religion; discriminating against those who like to see their family now and again is perfectly legal.

 

[EweSheep]

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I remember him saying on the first day of his job, a female employee had really bad stomach pains....you know what they did, they picked her up upon their shoulders, while she was screaming in pain. He didn't see her anymore after that...........as his experience as an EMT even with female problems, you dont hoast someone with abdominal pain over your shoulders and walk out to the waiting van! No ambulance either. The guy that picked her up is a basic EMT employed by the company. Who knows what kind of abdominal pains she had or how bad it would have been! He never knew what was the problem except her screaming my stomach hurts, etc. and she could not walk to the waiting van. Such idiots.

I have NO idea how many hours they can work in a day even they are working eight hours, moved into ten hours for such a LONG time. It has been dragging on too long since he started working there in May and they have been working overtime since then. That is why they are going mandatory hours, two to four MORE hours on top of what they are accustomed to. If no one do it, they will enforce it and if you do not report to work on the days they want you to work, including Sundays, either you are written up or FIRED....mostly the threats points FIRED. They even told the churchgoers, the company comes first, then your church!

Hubby on the other hand is not a churchgoer but he loves to have a Sunday's rest to spend some time with his family and have a good homemade cooked dinner with us.

Thing is they cannot discriminate based upon religion; discriminating against those who like to see their family now and again is perfectly legal.

Got ya!

 

[EweSheep]

Major problem is most of the employees working there are religious churchgoers and a few of them are not...they can not run the company with fewer than ten to 20 employees due to the equipment size.

the company had a fit on Labor Day, that no one showed up except for two workers. The head supervisor wrote all of them up that were absent on Labor Day as well as Sunday (the day before Labor Day).

They were talking about working on Thanksgiving Eve.....in the employee booklet, Thanksgiving Eve is the day off. Would they enforce that too? Probably.