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Subject:RE: Overtime rules From:<richard -dot- melanson -at- us -dot- tel -dot- com> To:<bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:31:06 -0500
I have a VERY close person in my life and I trust her implicitly. I ran this scenario by her as she is the 2nd in command in HR at her company. We work in an at will state, and she stated her experiences tell her unemployment would be granted 99% of the time, this is of course using the exact scenario provided below.
Rick
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From: techwr-l-bounces+richard -dot- melanson=us -dot- tel -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com [mailto:techwr-l-bounces+richard -dot- melanson=us -dot- tel -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On Behalf Of Bonnie Granat
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Subject: RE: Overtime rules
If a person signed on to a job knowing that the job involved up to 80 hours a week and the company did not offer compensatory time, you'd call that person insane, wouldn't you?
Well, no insane person is going to complain about it if they're crazy enough to sign on to it to begin with.
I guess what I'm saying is that your scenario is deeply flawed, so deeply that it's unusable as a hypothetical situation.
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> .com] On Behalf Of Keith Hansen
> This raises a question I have. Assume the following:
> * Employee is salaried, exempt worker.
> * Employer demands that employee work 60, 70, or 80 hours per week
> consistently--no overtime or additional compensation of any kind.
> * Employee refuses.
> * Employer accuses employee of insubordination and terminates him/her.
> * Employee files claim for unemployment benefits.
> * Employer contests claim, stating that employee was insubordinate and
> justifiably terminated for failure to perform his/her job adequately.
>
> I am assuming, of course, that this takes place in an
> employment-at-will state. What position would most state unemployment
> review boards take on this?
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