I hope someone can help me! I am trying to look up these laws and have also looked in my companys policy manual and can't find the info
I just posted this on another chat board I belong to but no one really knows... hoping some can help me!
So I was supposed to be going on this big trip to Bermuda with my job. Basically, I work at a group home for mentally ill/retarded individuals and me and my coworker were going to be taking them on this cruise on Sunday.
I've been in charge of planning it and I got it all done, payed for (by the individuals) and tickets everything.. for 6 months or so been planning this and saving their money and budgeting, everything.
It was agreed to us (me and my coworker) *verbally by my boss months ago* that we would be paid for every hour we are working, which IS 24 hours a day, for the 5 days we are gone.
16 hours awake pay, 8 hours overnight pay (overnight pay is about half pay).
Fine, thats standard from what I've heard.
My coworker just called me and said that my boss just talked to her and said that they are changing how they are going to pay us. They are only going to pay us 12 hours a day, and 8 hours overnight. So thats four hours a day we are not paid for??
And not only that, buts only ONE of us will get paid a night.. so it will be like I get paid one night, and my coworker the next.
wtf??? we leave SUNDAY and he's extorting us NOW???
We are calling his boss and his boss's boss in the morning. The decision came down from his boss's boss, which is like the final say in EVERYTHINg.
but thats f**ing extortion. Yes we are going on a cruise for free basically but we are there to WORK with these guys and help them with EVERYTHING, and its WORK. Every minute we are there is work. WE deserve to get paid for that..
And um 3 days before we go your telling us this?? My coworker is saying now that she is going to refuse to go. man. wtf. I had babysitters lined up for the whole week, I'm taking school off, its the week before my midterms.
I'm going to look up labor laws now. This seems really f**ked up to me.

I just posted this on another chat board I belong to but no one really knows... hoping some can help me!
So I was supposed to be going on this big trip to Bermuda with my job. Basically, I work at a group home for mentally ill/retarded individuals and me and my coworker were going to be taking them on this cruise on Sunday.
I've been in charge of planning it and I got it all done, payed for (by the individuals) and tickets everything.. for 6 months or so been planning this and saving their money and budgeting, everything.
It was agreed to us (me and my coworker) *verbally by my boss months ago* that we would be paid for every hour we are working, which IS 24 hours a day, for the 5 days we are gone.
16 hours awake pay, 8 hours overnight pay (overnight pay is about half pay).
Fine, thats standard from what I've heard.
My coworker just called me and said that my boss just talked to her and said that they are changing how they are going to pay us. They are only going to pay us 12 hours a day, and 8 hours overnight. So thats four hours a day we are not paid for??
And not only that, buts only ONE of us will get paid a night.. so it will be like I get paid one night, and my coworker the next.
wtf??? we leave SUNDAY and he's extorting us NOW???
We are calling his boss and his boss's boss in the morning. The decision came down from his boss's boss, which is like the final say in EVERYTHINg.
but thats f**ing extortion. Yes we are going on a cruise for free basically but we are there to WORK with these guys and help them with EVERYTHING, and its WORK. Every minute we are there is work. WE deserve to get paid for that..
And um 3 days before we go your telling us this?? My coworker is saying now that she is going to refuse to go. man. wtf. I had babysitters lined up for the whole week, I'm taking school off, its the week before my midterms.
I'm going to look up labor laws now. This seems really f**ked up to me.
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