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I am looking for some advice. I worked for a company that worked a schedule of 8 days on and 6 days off. My area just experienced a terrible flood which affected my In-Laws greatly. One lost his home and the other had 5 feet of water in their basement. This happened the day after I got back from my shift, one day before I was scheduled to leave on my shift I called and asked if I could have one shift off to help deal with this issue and I would be ready for work the following shift. Since I was the primary person helping clean up their houses due to their disabilities and they were forced to stay with me at my home. My employer has stand-by crews to this exact situation. My employer said if your not going to show up your fired. We get performance based bonuses per shift, they are now refusing to give me two of my bonuses that I earned because they say I am not an employee anymore and those are for employees of their company. Even though I earned the bonuses while I was an active employee. Also they are saying that I quit and not fired because I refused to show up for my scheduled work.
I believe that I am entitled to the bonus money. I was working hard during the shifts in order to receive a big bonus.
I am looking for some advice. I worked for a company that worked a schedule of 8 days on and 6 days off. My area just experienced a terrible flood which affected my In-Laws greatly. One lost his home and the other had 5 feet of water in their basement. This happened the day after I got back from my shift, one day before I was scheduled to leave on my shift I called and asked if I could have one shift off to help deal with this issue and I would be ready for work the following shift. Since I was the primary person helping clean up their houses due to their disabilities and they were forced to stay with me at my home. My employer has stand-by crews to this exact situation. My employer said if your not going to show up your fired. We get performance based bonuses per shift, they are now refusing to give me two of my bonuses that I earned because they say I am not an employee anymore and those are for employees of their company. Even though I earned the bonuses while I was an active employee. Also they are saying that I quit and not fired because I refused to show up for my scheduled work.
I believe that I am entitled to the bonus money. I was working hard during the shifts in order to receive a big bonus.