Can employees request to change their scheduled day off?
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Can employees request to change their scheduled day off?
We own a chain of businesses, that typically employ 1 person per day per
location. We have 22 locations, and each is open 6 days a week. Employees
only work 5 days a week. We then have floaters which work 5 days a week, at 5
different locations, covering the store managers days off. Therefore, one
manager may typically be off on a monday, and another on a tuesday, and so on,
in order for floaters to get a regular schedule.
My question is, if an employee is typically off on Wednesdays, and they have a
doctors appointment in 3 weeks on a Thursday, and the schedule has not been put
out for that week, can the employee request to change their next scheduled day
off to be Thursday as opposed to the normal Wednesday, in order to not have to
use a vacation day for that?
I am VP of the company, and want to make a rule going forward. We have
typically done this in the past, but our HR manager just sent a mass email for
the new year saying employees can no longer change their Next Day Off to work
around their schedule. Our stance has always been to work with employees, and
we would like to keep it that way.
Are there any laws pertaining to this?
Asked on December 4, 2018 under Employment Labor Law, Mississippi
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 5 years ago | Contributor
There is no law requiring you to allow employees to change their days off: you can require them to use, as applicable, a vacation or sick day for those purposes. It would be better from a management point of view to accommodate employees when possible, but you are not required to.
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