New York Post We have a big screen in our reception area and my boss keeps it on the Fox News channel, which I find offensive and I think some other employees do too. It’s also embarrassing when we have visitors. Do we have to be subjected to this?
Which channel would you prefer? CNN, MSNBC, CSPAN?
By switching to one of those stations, you would likely double their ratings.
Besides, do you think that some might find a different station offensive?
Is it a distraction because of the volume or your politics? If the volume is off, can you just ignore it?
Maybe as a compromise your boss could rotate stations each week so that everyone could take turns being offended (or bored).
Or, everyone can just pay attention to doing their job instead of paying attention to which news station is on.
Full disclosure: NY Post is part of News Corp, which is also the parent company of Fox News, so while I might be biased if you were complaining about CNN my response would be the same.
I work in a small shoe store as a sales clerk. My boss is paying me a salary of $40,000 per year. When I take off a day he docks my pay, yet when I work extra days he doesn’t pay me anything for it. Is this legal?
Something does fit here, and it sounds like your boss may be a heel.
But don’t take my sole opinion of that (see what I did there?).
Let’s see what the Fair Labor Standards Act says about this.
Workers who fall under the administrative, executive, or professional category typically perform non-manual office work.
They are exempt and must be paid a salary, not an hourly wage, and no overtime regardless of the hours they work.
I’m quite certain that a shoe-store clerk is not an exempt position.
Therefore you are non-exempt, which means you must be paid at least minimum wage hourly for all hours worked and for overtime for anything in excess of 40 hours per week, at a rate of one and a half times your hourly rate.
Seems to me that the shoe fits and your boss is wrongly having it both ways to avoid paying you for the extra hours but docking you when you don’t work.
Gregory Giangrande has over 25 years of experience as a chief human resources executive. Hear Greg Wed. at 9:35 a.m. on iHeartRadio 710 WOR with Len Berman and Michael Riedel. Email: GoToGreg@NYPost.com. Follow: GoToGreg.com and on Twitter: @GregGiangrande
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