We were told around 10:45am that we were to go home by 11:30am due to the inclimate weather. After coming in at 6:30am we had decided we would just stay until 2:30 and get our 8 hours, since we had found out we were not getting paid to leave. Then we found out it was not an option to stay we HAD to go home. After returning to work the next day, we found out that we had to use either vacation time, personal time, or use our overtime from during the week and turn it to strait time!! When this week began we had no intentions of our overtime being cut due to weather on a Thursday.
We are all hourly employees in a transportation department at a scrap metal company, we are paid weekly.
Can our employer force us to go home after we were already at work?? Not to mention we had already worked 5 hours, and were willing to stay. The weather never got that bad and at the time we would have normally left work (3:30 or 4) there wasn't even any precipitation. They just sent us home in "anticipation" of bad weather.
Is this legal??
We are all hourly employees in a transportation department at a scrap metal company, we are paid weekly.
Can our employer force us to go home after we were already at work?? Not to mention we had already worked 5 hours, and were willing to stay. The weather never got that bad and at the time we would have normally left work (3:30 or 4) there wasn't even any precipitation. They just sent us home in "anticipation" of bad weather.
Is this legal??
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