What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Pennsylvania
To keep it short and sweet, I am a cable TV installer, and I was hired in my local city to install cable/internet. There was no mention of working elsewhere, or traveling.
There are other cities/regions that sometimes need help because of quota / understaffing issues, and my company will often take volunteers to go help them out. We travel in company trucks and company-paid fuel, and are paid for travel time. There is no incentive to drive the techs to do this, if anything it will be for less money, than what we would make if we stayed working where were are. It is not uncommon for the management to say, "It''ll be just for today", or "I promise you will only have to work there for a week" and then change they're mind, and a week turns into a month. I volunteered to work in Tennessee for 3 weeks for them, and I was forced to stay there for 6 weeks once my 3 weeks were up, and I live in Pennsylvania. Hotels/food were paid, and there was no option to drive home on weekends, because of the 6-day work week. Was I worng for not getting it in writing ? EVERY tech is afraid they will be fired, or treated unfairly if they don't comply. These decisions are often made last minute, and your scheduled day-off is non-existant. It has gotten to the point where we are all forced to travel 1- 1 1/2 hours away to work in another city and drive home that night. I worked 15 hours 2 days ago, and had to be to work 5 hours later again to do it all over again, with only 4-5 hours of non-working hours (sleep) in between. is this legal ?
To keep it short and sweet, I am a cable TV installer, and I was hired in my local city to install cable/internet. There was no mention of working elsewhere, or traveling.
There are other cities/regions that sometimes need help because of quota / understaffing issues, and my company will often take volunteers to go help them out. We travel in company trucks and company-paid fuel, and are paid for travel time. There is no incentive to drive the techs to do this, if anything it will be for less money, than what we would make if we stayed working where were are. It is not uncommon for the management to say, "It''ll be just for today", or "I promise you will only have to work there for a week" and then change they're mind, and a week turns into a month. I volunteered to work in Tennessee for 3 weeks for them, and I was forced to stay there for 6 weeks once my 3 weeks were up, and I live in Pennsylvania. Hotels/food were paid, and there was no option to drive home on weekends, because of the 6-day work week. Was I worng for not getting it in writing ? EVERY tech is afraid they will be fired, or treated unfairly if they don't comply. These decisions are often made last minute, and your scheduled day-off is non-existant. It has gotten to the point where we are all forced to travel 1- 1 1/2 hours away to work in another city and drive home that night. I worked 15 hours 2 days ago, and had to be to work 5 hours later again to do it all over again, with only 4-5 hours of non-working hours (sleep) in between. is this legal ?
