Post by Yeezy's Mullet: Team X Blades on Mar 19, 2011 13:37:31 GMT -5
We dealt with a similar situation before I stepped down from management in my store. We had an older gentlemen who was given full time status, signed the commitment, but still managed to get scheduled his regular M-F, 9-5 shift. He was dependable, he'd be doing it for years - it worked. But then someone filed a complaint. Felt that he was getting special treatment, and we had to go and switch it up, by rule of corporate.
Now - some states do have laws protecting "reasonable accommodations". My state is one, in which if anyone needs an accommodation for work regarding pertaining to their health or religion, a sheet must be kept on file, signed by the individual and their supervisor, with the accommodation clearly stated. We have them on file for anything from wearing sneakers due to pregnancy/foot issues to your very issue of days off to observe religiously.
That said, if you do have a "full time commitment", or anything resembling it, and you do not have the protection of a religious accommodation, you're kinda f*cked. The biggest thing to remember about employment, and employers will always be willing to remind you this when under the crunch in scheduling, or when leading you out the door, is that your employment is not a contract.
It's actually even worse than if corp were coming down on her. She, herself has a problem with it. I've worked at two other locations, under about four different GMs. As long as I was available for ANY other time (which I was), I was given Sundays off. Then upon coming to her store, another manager told me what she said word for word. "Oh..no way. He's GOING to work a Sunday if he's coming here!"
That right there tells me that she has a personal issue with it. Her turning her nose up at me and not talking to me yesterday furthermore proves that point. Had it been a corporate issue, she'd have whipped out some paperwork and policy documents sent from our Area Manager, I'd have still disagreed, and I'd be speaking to you as an unemployed man.
So she's either backed down because she can't do anything about it, or because she's cooking up something to get out the door. At this point, I couldn't care less. I'm in line for a sweet job as a correctional officer in within the next couple of months anyway.
