As Hurricane Milton prepares to circumcise the United States, please remember your job isn't worth it. If your area is under an evacuation order, please evacuate, even if your shitty job is telling you to stay and show up for work. Please stay safe.
this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2024
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How the fuck is it not extremely illegal to tell (or even force) someone to work when there is an official evacuation order?
Because
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At will employment. Even if it is illegal they could fire you the next day with no repercussions as long as they don't say, "I'm firing you for (ABC illegal reason)". You'd be surprised how often employers fuck that up and get sued successfully.
I'd imagine it is illegal or at the very least that you don't have to obey that them telling you to stay put. It could be that the companies don't give a shit either way
You can always leave, but they can always fire you for it.
I don't think they can fire you for it, they can fire you for no reason though
Very true, I'd just imagine that even in the US it might be an unlawful termination or some such thing
Right to work...
I had to look that up. I have heard of the term but never knew what it meant. Sounds like a law made so that unless you're unionized, you get no benefit from collective bargaining and whatnot. It does say "not to be confused with 'at-will employment'" which is about termination of employment. I'm a bit confused but I think the gist is that no, the US does not have such protections?
The US is terrible with labor laws, by design. It's absurd, especially immediately after civic when all these"essential workers" were called "heroes" but weren't compensated as such. And when nobody was applying for jobs that were paid trash and got shit on by management and customers should the only reaction was "nobody wants to work anymore".
No, people wanna work. They just don't want to be paid minimum wage for skilled positions and spend half the day being berated
Companies make jobs as awful as possible, cry about how nobody wants to work and at least here say "this is why we need immigrantion".
I don't deny that many places do, but also, not wanting to pay union wage or even livable one is a reason to bring someone in who've they've already beaten into thinking living on half-wages is okay.
At will*
Right to work is about not having to join a union. At will employment means you can quit/get fired for any reason* or no reason at all
* there are a few exceptions to this, like you can't be fired over membership of a protected class (being a certain race, sex, etc) and there are limited whistleblower protections in certain areas. Not sure if not showing up to work applies when there's an evacuation order, especially considering one may live inside an evacuation area and work outside (or vice versa)