TigerD
Senior Member
Not what I said at all.I find it interesting that while refusal to pay for overtime is blatantly illegal under both Federal and state law, DC is finding the OP at fault for wanting what the law guarantees him.
DC
Not what I said at all.I find it interesting that while refusal to pay for overtime is blatantly illegal under both Federal and state law, DC is finding the OP at fault for wanting what the law guarantees him.
No, I don't think I have the wrong measure of you at all.I very much so think you've gotten the wrong impression of me. I do not 'seek to work the system'
Not sit around and stress once i'm home because i'm constantly being taken advantage of... I finally had reached my breaking point with the previous employer, just as was many others who were being abused, but weren't willing to step up and say something. '
And when i say 'employers around here' I also include word of mouth spread by others who do not work in the same establishment as I.
(Makes me question the legitimacy of businesses)
Really? Because it certainly sounds as if you're telling the OP he should not rock the boat and just work the overtime without any expectation of being paid.Not what I said at all.
DC
If you can't come up with a legal reason to fire a troublemaker, you shouldn't be in management.If they even sort of suspect it's you who called the DOL, of course, the employer may legally terminate you.
Not legally they can't. Even if they drum up some kind of "legal" reason to put on paper, firing an employee who reports illegal or suspected illegal activity to the appropriate regulatory agency is, in fact, a wrongful term.
That's not to say it can always be proven, granted, but a firing done for, say, poor performance when it is *really* because of a report to the DOL is just as illegal as one that is done outright for the report to the DOL.
Nonsense. Did you even read this thread?My point being that the only trouble he's making is wanting to be paid according to law. That is NOT a valid reason to term someone.
George Costanza likes this. davew128 does not.Employer lying? Not necessarily.
Lying means that the employer believes that what he is saying is wrong. Perhaps he believes it. He is still wrong but not lying. For example, if I were a member of the Flat-Earth Society and said to you "the earth is round", I would be lying (because that is not what I believe). If I said the earth is flat then I would not be lying, just wrong.
Uummm.... Most people I know use Fat for the "F" - not the word you are thinking of...Admin will ban you for language. Edit the LM**O.