If your employer calls and asks you to pick up a extra shift on your day your off, can you be reprimanded it you don’t?
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If your employer calls and asks you to pick up a extra shift on your day your off, can you be reprimanded it you don’t?
If you were not on the regula schedule and a employer calls you and asks you to pick up a extra shift on your day your off. Can a lawyer threaten to cut your hours?
Asked on April 2, 2012 under Employment Labor Law, Indiana
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
If you don't pick up the shift, you could be reprimanded, suspended, have hours or pay cut, or even be fired. The employer, not the employee, determines the hours and shifts; while you may normally have a given or certain day off, unless you have an employment contract which specifies you get that day, the employer can change that at will, such as by calling you in to work. There is no legal entitlement to days off, absent a contract.
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