Legal Question in Employment Law in Virginia

work days scheduled
Can an employer force me to work on a day I have don't work anymore.When I started the work schedule was told to me it was Mon-Sat.For about 1 yr I worked that schedule but got a promotion.I have worked Mon-Fri for the past 9 months or so.I recently had to change jobs within the company with a verbal commmitment that they agreed to allow me to still work a Mon-Fri schedule due to family and other things.
It isn't standard for anybody to work on Sundays but occasionally they ask for volunteers.They are now saying that it is mandatory that everybody works this particular
Sunday because they are going to start giving everybody a different schedule than they have been working.
I go to church and many other reasons I can't work that Sunday.
Perhaps they will fire me but would I have a legal recourse for religious reasons or any other.
Or does it always come down to this is a right to work state and they or I can do as I please.

Asked on 10/25/05, 10:36 am

Michael Hendrickson Law Office Michael E. Hendrickson

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Re: work days scheduled

I believe that this very same question was recently submitted and answered.

The answer given now is the same as then: As long as you're working without a contract which

governs what sort of work schedule your employer

may set for you, the employer can set any schedule they please, including work on Sunday.

Answered on 10/27/05, 12:47 am

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