What are my rights if my employer didn’t call to tell me work was cancelled on a snow day?
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What are my rights if my employer didn’t call to tell me work was cancelled on a snow day?
I went to work and found that other people had got a call not to come in but I didn’t.
Asked on February 12, 2017 under Employment Labor Law, Massachusetts
Answers:
M.D., Member, California and New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 7 years ago | Contributor
Unless not informing you of the cancellation breached the terms of an employment contract or union agreement, then your company was under no obligation to call you. The fact is that most employment is "at will", which means that a business can set the conditions of the workplace much as it sees fit (absent any form of legally actionable discrimination).
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