I am employed in Missouri.
I have been at my company for 2.5 years and I accepted employment for a 7.5 hour day with no lunch time. I have done this with all my jobs over the last 15 years as I run a small non-profit organization where we take in homeless dogs and finds homes for them. Having animals to tend to requires me to be home as soon as possible to let them out to potty any many are sick and need care.
Rumor is in January they are going to require us to take a 1 hour lunch, and bump us up to an 8 hour or 8.5 hour day. This would add 1.5 to 2 hours to the length of my day (even more as it would also put me in worse traffic) and put me home too late to keep up with the dogs properly. I live alone and have no one else to rely on to tend to the animals. I would even sign a waver saying I agree to take no lunch in order to get home sooner.
I know they don't care about the pets but my question is this:
1. since I accepted employment for 7.5 hours and no lunch,
a. how much lunch time can they make me take?
b. how many hours can they extend my day?
I have also seen a trend within the company to lay people off and just disperse the work to other peoples desks with no additional compensation only more work with longer hours.
I will be willing to compromise some to keep my job, I would be willing to add one half to possibly one hour to keep my job but more that that and I would rather not have the job and be on unemployment pay.
My second question is:
2. If they extend my requirement to be there 2-3 hours or more longer in the day and I just go home before the required time will I be eligible for unemployment pay?
I am willing to do some more time but with this company I don't think the time will be a bit I think they have a trend to keep piling on the work and extending hours. I really would rather be on unemployment and start over looking for a job.
I would also be OK with working the extra hours from home as I have a good computer with all the programs necessary but they say they are not going to allow that for some reason.
One more question, the last place I work was a similar type place, (publishing), a bunch of editors and graphic designers. We were all salaried workers at first. Long story short, some one raised an issue and by law the determination was made that we really were all supposed to be classified as hourly workers. The company had to make us hourly workers and and pay over time. They even had to pay overtime on hours worked for the previous 2 years. Since this is the same type place with the same type workers could they be forced to make us hourly people and pay over time for all this extended hours?
Thanks for any advice,
Kim
I have been at my company for 2.5 years and I accepted employment for a 7.5 hour day with no lunch time. I have done this with all my jobs over the last 15 years as I run a small non-profit organization where we take in homeless dogs and finds homes for them. Having animals to tend to requires me to be home as soon as possible to let them out to potty any many are sick and need care.
Rumor is in January they are going to require us to take a 1 hour lunch, and bump us up to an 8 hour or 8.5 hour day. This would add 1.5 to 2 hours to the length of my day (even more as it would also put me in worse traffic) and put me home too late to keep up with the dogs properly. I live alone and have no one else to rely on to tend to the animals. I would even sign a waver saying I agree to take no lunch in order to get home sooner.
I know they don't care about the pets but my question is this:
1. since I accepted employment for 7.5 hours and no lunch,
a. how much lunch time can they make me take?
b. how many hours can they extend my day?
I have also seen a trend within the company to lay people off and just disperse the work to other peoples desks with no additional compensation only more work with longer hours.
I will be willing to compromise some to keep my job, I would be willing to add one half to possibly one hour to keep my job but more that that and I would rather not have the job and be on unemployment pay.
My second question is:
2. If they extend my requirement to be there 2-3 hours or more longer in the day and I just go home before the required time will I be eligible for unemployment pay?
I am willing to do some more time but with this company I don't think the time will be a bit I think they have a trend to keep piling on the work and extending hours. I really would rather be on unemployment and start over looking for a job.
I would also be OK with working the extra hours from home as I have a good computer with all the programs necessary but they say they are not going to allow that for some reason.
One more question, the last place I work was a similar type place, (publishing), a bunch of editors and graphic designers. We were all salaried workers at first. Long story short, some one raised an issue and by law the determination was made that we really were all supposed to be classified as hourly workers. The company had to make us hourly workers and and pay over time. They even had to pay overtime on hours worked for the previous 2 years. Since this is the same type place with the same type workers could they be forced to make us hourly people and pay over time for all this extended hours?
Thanks for any advice,
Kim