Legal Question in Employment Law in California
Can a company quoting company policy(company/business needs),require employee's from one department to work overtime(mandatory) on a daily basis with only 10 minutes notice before quitting time? Since there is no actual positive or negative affect to the company's bottom line(this is a worldwide company) could this not be viewed as harassment of a few employee's? Regular company policy requires 24 hour notice to employee's before the company can mandate anyone to work overtime.
1 Answer from Attorneys
"work overtime(mandatory)"?
Yes. As long as they pay you properly.
Employers are entitled to set and change hours, duties, titles, compensation, benefits, leaves, vacations, holidays, policies, rules, etc., just not retroactively. You can either comply, look for another job and then resign, or quit now and risk being denied unemployment.
Not only are there no laws against poor management, 'unfair treatment', or rude, obnoxious or harassing behavior by management or other employees, but in general, unless an employee is civil service, in a union, or has a written employment contract, they are an 'at will' employee that can be disciplined or terminated any time for any reason, with or without �cause�, explanation or notice. Any employee's goal should be to keep their supervisors happy and make them look good to the company, and make the company money. That�s how the company pays employee wages. If you don't, then don't be surprised to be replaced.
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