Is what my husband’s boss doing legal?
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Is what my husband’s boss doing legal?
My husband has been working the same job for several months and everyone always tells him how good of a job he is doing. Managers from other stores within the company have come in to help out and said they wished they could hire him away because he is so good at his job. His customers love him and several of the store managers have told him that they could not run the store without him. He has come in every time that he has been called in to cover a shift on his days off, including working several open to close shifts, running the store by himself for a majority of the day. He has called in 2 times once when he was in the ER and once when I was. The store manager told him that she would give him every Saturday off so that he could spend some time with our daughter since he hardly gets to see her with the hours he works. We have made plans around what she has told him but now she informed him that he will be working on Christmas Eve. However, we have already made arrangements and will be out of town. He said he would not be able to work that day and she has been making his life hell ever since. She was very rude to me when I was in the store and he told her that she can treat her employees and customers like crap but she will not talk to me in that manner. Then she cut his hours down from 36 hours a week to 11 because he
Asked on December 11, 2016 under Employment Labor Law, Kentucky
Answers:
M.D., Member, California and New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 7 years ago | Contributor
Unfortunately, while highly unprofessional, your husband's treatment is probably legal. The fact is that a company can set the conditions of the workplace much as it sees fit. The exceptions to this are if an worker's treatment violates the terms of any applicable employment contract or union agreement. Also, it must not constitute any form of legally actionable discrimination. This means that an employee cannot receive lesser treatment due to their race, religion, nation origin, age (over 40), disability or the like. However, this does not appear to be the case here. So basically, your husband cn either pit up with this treatment, complain but risk termination, or quit.
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