Comments on: Wage and hour roundup https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/02/wage-and-hour-roundup-7/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Mon, 04 Feb 2019 15:53:49 +0000 hourly 1 By: cc https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/02/wage-and-hour-roundup-7/comment-page-1/#comment-352410 Mon, 04 Feb 2019 15:53:49 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=72925#comment-352410 The scheduling and work laws assume that government knows best how to run a business. This is absurd. While it is certainly true that some employers can be jerks, that is why an employee should perhaps look for a different job. You cannot mandate good behavior.

Why might schedules change? Employees call in sick and there can even be a wave of illness. Unless you can bring in the non-sick employees, you can’t stay open. You cannot schedule people getting sick. Some event in town may bring lots of customers to your store. You cannot always predict this. One way that business helps people who have some issue (child care, car breakdown, illness) is by adjusting schedules. Making schedules rigid actually can hurt people who have an emergency.

Lord save us from people trying to help.

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