<p>Thought I get the advice of the parents. I got a job and before I was hired I said flat out I can only work 20 hrs w/ Tuesdays and thurs off for school. The supervisors would constantly ask me why only 20hrs and I would explain and they have been complying the entire time. But I looked at my schedule for next week I work from thursday through saturday for a total of 32 hrs. I never said anything about if its a holiday go ahead and schedule me for over 10hrs a day. So is what they are doing legal its not possible for me to work over 20hrs.</p>
<p>You are not an indentured servant. If you don’t want to go - don’t go. You are under no legal requirement to do so.</p>
<p>In most states, you would be an “at will” employee and they will fire you for not working the schedule they gave you. In most states that would be legal. In most states the -er can fire for any reason or no reason, as long as it’s not a prohibited reason. </p>
<p>They don’t have to be nice to you.</p>
<p>Talk to them . It’s better than not showing up.</p>
<p>This sounds like a simple misunderstanding to me.</p>
<p>Many students who have part-time jobs set limits on the number of hours per week that they can work (or their parents do). But often, those limits do not apply when school is not in session.</p>
<p>If you really can’t work more than 20 hours next week, even though it is Thanksgiving Break, you need to talk with your supervisor right away.</p>
<p>Your employer may find it necessary to terminate your employment if you can’t work the extra hours, but you cannot be forced to work them.</p>
<p>Go to your county website for minor laws. If you are under 18 I believe u can’t work more than 8 hours in a day. As far as 32 hours you can be forced to, since under 35 hours is considered part time. Is there a true reason u can’t or is it personal? i.e. sport schedule</p>
<p>I just got a lot of stuff going on and thats what I keep telling them. I don’t have the entire week off of school by the way only thursday but I am still in school the rest of the week.</p>
<p>Oh I did talk to them as soon as I saw my schedule and then I checked up to see what was going on and all I am being told is we will see what we can do. Its like they gave everybody those days off and I am working for them. I do not even get extra pay for working over 10 hrs each day.</p>
<p>Isn’t 10 hours for 1 shift considered overtime?</p>
<p>You have school the Friday after Thanksgiving? I would talk to your supervisor and explain that you even though you have a school holiday, you still have school commitments. The supervisor will either change your works schedule or will tell you that if you don’t work, they really don’t need you. I don’t know what kind of work you do, but especially in retail…they need all the help they can get over the Thanksgiving weekend.</p>
<p>First of all, as previously mentioned you are an at will employee. If you can’t work the schedule they gave you, talk to them. If they aren’t willing to change it and you aren’t willing to work it you need to find another job.<br>
Second, of course it is legal.
Third, in some states it is overtime if you work more than 8 hours in one day. CA is one of them. In other states, overtime is more than 40 hours week, so if you work three ten hours days in one work week you are not on overtime. You need to educate yourself about the laws in your particular state.
Lastly, the rules about students in school and child labor apply during times when school is in session. If this is over a school holiday, those restrictions do not apply.</p>
<p>ok thanks for all the advice I will contact the sups tomorrow to see if anything has been done</p>
<p>I just have to add…my kids were always THRILLED to get extra work hours over their school holidays…mostly because they couldn’t work much while they were in school.</p>
<p>I’ll add something too again here. When I was a hotel manager, a PARENT called me at home to tell me her kid didn’t want to work on Thanksgiving day. In retail and hospitality, holidays are the busiest times and everyone is told in advance that they will not be taking holidays off.<br>
My daughter worked retail in a tourist market and she always worked holidays. As thumper says, she was happy for the extra money as she didn’t have the time when she was in school.</p>
<p>Working the holidays is not the problem. The problem is working the long days. Its not the kinda job someone would want to do for over 10hrs. Ton of standing, lifting, sweeping,cleaning etc. and only a 30 minute lunch.I don’t think I would be able to survive that kind of schedule.</p>
<p>To answer your question, yes, it’s legal unless you’re not getting paid for the hours you work (and you’re not a minor). Your employer doesn’t have to agree to your requested schedule.</p>
<p>If you don’t want to work the hours they want you to work (whether someone “wants” to do it for over 10 hours is irrelevant), you have a choice - you can quit.</p>
<p>Kenshi,
I take it your not in college yet…piece of advice, change jobs, my s has been a lifeguard for over 18 mos. looks good on ec’s and for sports, he enjoys it too! Also re-think your survival, it’s 10 hours, trust me most moms here spent more time in labor with alot more pain :)</p>
<p>Then you should get a new job.</p>
<p>kenshi, how old are you? if you are under 18, at least in PA, it’s not legal to work more than 8 hours in a day.</p>
<p>I would never counsel a kid to quit with as much info as is given here! You don’t know anything about his community. Maybe jobs are hard to find. Maybe he can’t afford not to skip a week’s pay. So many variables. </p>
<p>Best strategies for jobs are to know the terms of the job and rules for workers in your state. Then understand that it’s paid because it’s not pleasant to do for free, so there will always be some small amount of grumpiness, offset when they hand you the salary. </p>
<p>Communicating with the supervisor in a tactful, non-whiney way will help you decide what to do. I hope they reduce your hours. As pointed out above, other kids would be thrilled to earn the extra few bucks, but you don’t have to be thrilled. Supervisor might have assumed you wanted to earn more, as other kids would whose parents posted here, too. Each family and kid is different. </p>
<p>I always encourage extreme politeness here, and questions such as :I was wondering why I got assigned all these hours…" (He’ll tell you. He might say the older employees all wanted off on the holiday.) You: “It was nice of you to consider me for the bonus hours, but if you remember, at the job interview I said I could only work X hours/week.” and/or “It must be a mixup, because I’m only x years old and the state says I can’t work that long in one day. What a shame.”</p>
<p>Decide what you want to happen here. If you want to keep the job, you can discuss this in a way that will more likely help you keep the job. If you absolutely can’t afford to lose this job, according to the parents above it sounds like you’d better suck it up and work the hours, if you can’t bear quitting or being fired over this matter. If there’s really an 8-hour rule for your age, you can show that to them and they know they can’t fire you over that particular wrinkle. </p>
<p>Good luck. Sometimes my H tells our kids, “Work is a curse, check it out with Adam and Eve. They got kicked out of the Garden of Eden and what was his punishment? Having to work for a living.”</p>
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Wow! Who did that?!</p>
<p>I went back and re-read the thread and I can’t find anywhere where anyone counseled such an action.</p>
<p>Edit: Read them for the 3rd time. Still don’t see it. I do believe some posters wanted to point out to the OP that they had a choice, and were not required to work hours that didn’t meet their needs (or wants for that matter). To me at least, it seemed the OP was feeling like there was no choice but to kowtow to the employer’s demands.</p>
<p>sn’t 10 hours for 1 shift considered overtime?</p>
<p>overtime is whatever your contract says it is
I used to work 4 days a week- 10 hours a day. Standing up in heels 
wasn’t overtime</p>
<p>20 hours however is a lot if you are a full time student.
High school or college?</p>
<p>curm,
see posts 14 and 15
maybe I misunderstood them, but that’s what I took away from reading them.</p>