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[jjones]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Florida

In the state of florida we know that the labor laws are prehistoric.

But unfortunately I still need to get some clarification.

Line of work: Hospitality

Recently a meeting was held by my employer (owner/operator). They called each employee in and supposedly told them the following.

If you take a day off (which they currently don't pay you for) you either have to work a 16 hours shift (8 hours for the day you were out and 8 hours for current day) over the next 2 weeks to make up for it or have someone else take your 8 hour shift and you have to pay the person for them working.

Is this legal?

Also they have take the housekeepers from minimum wage, approximately 6 hours a day to $3 a room. The amount of rooms from Monday to Thursday is usually less than 30 rooms with 5 house keepers.

Is this legal?

Thank you in advance

Jeff

 

[LeeHarveyBlotto]

They can "make" you work the double shift. Whether they have to pay you for it depends on whether the position is exempt. They can't legally make you pay anyone's wages under any circumstances.

No matter the wage scheme, it has to come out that the housekeepers are paid an hourly rate greater or equal to the minimum wage.

 

[cbg]

If you take a day off (which they currently don't pay you for) you either have to work a 16 hours shift (8 hours for the day you were out and 8 hours for current day) over the next 2 weeks to make up for it

Legal

or have someone else take your 8 hour shift and you have to pay the person for them working.

Not legal. They can require the employee to find the replacement but the employer, not ht employee, has to pay them.

Also they have take the housekeepers from minimum wage, approximately 6 hours a day to $3 a room.

Legal IF AND ONLY IF the total at the end of the week comes to no less than minimum wage times hours worked (and that's the state minimum wage, since that is higher than Federal). If it does not, then the employer has to pay enough to make up the difference.