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Can they force me to work full time?
I worked for a Mental health institute for almost 7 years. When I began there, I worked 2 days a week. Shortly thereafter I accepted 3 days a week, then they wanted 5 days a week, and I explained that...
1 answer  |  asked Mar 15, 2001 8:29 PM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Do equal pay jobs have to be at the same time?
I just have one question on the equal pay act laws. Do the employees that are being compared have to be employed during the same time period? For example, I was wrongfully terminated from my job. I wa...
1 answer  |  asked Mar 15, 2001 8:29 PM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Can they refuse intermitent leave because they have no part time jobs?
My daughter has developed pregnancy anemia in her seventh month of pregnancy. Her doctor prescribed a reduced work day "no more than six hours per day. She is under FMLA for her doctors visits already...
1 answer  |  asked Mar 15, 2001 8:29 PM [EST]  |  applies to Michigan

Should I worry about a phone call from HR after I complained?
I cited a grievance against a prospective employer (temp to perm situation). I received a phone call from headquarters HR that I'll be asked to meet with company executives and attorney in the near fu...
1 answer  |  asked Mar 15, 2001 8:29 PM [EST]  |  applies to Florida

I think my former employer is retaliating with bad references.
I am a 55 year old former employee of a company that dismissed me from my position at the beginning of 1999. I did accept severance pay and signed the agreement not to sue. I have since been searching...
1 answer  |  asked Mar 15, 2001 8:29 PM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Can they retaliate against me by increasing my hours?
I worked for a Mental health institute for almost 7 years. Three years ago I fell on the ice behind the building and broke my kneecap. I was back to work in 1 month after surgery. But last year I file...
1 answer  |  asked Mar 15, 2001 8:29 PM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Retaliation for embarrasing the company president.
I work for a local company in the computer department. The Director of MIS and I performed a check of Internet access log files. The files show all the Internet addresses that have been visited by tho...
1 answer  |  asked Mar 15, 2001 8:29 PM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

I was denied a temp to perm position
What would you do? I was hired for a temp to perm position. Went through all the necessary procedures for employment. I was to start work in two days and like a blow from the sky, I was called saying ...
1 answer  |  asked Mar 15, 2001 8:29 PM [EST]  |  applies to

Training replacement after being laid off
My company is relocating the accounting dept and we are all losing our jobs. However 80% of my job is now going to be kept here in the office I now work in but they asking me to train someone else her...
1 answer  |  asked Mar 15, 2001 8:29 PM [EST]  |  applies to

Is non-compete clause legal
I worked at a military base as a physician through two successive contractors in the same clinic the past 6 1/2 years. The civilian contractor cancelled the contract because they were having trouble f...
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