Can an employer change your schedule and not notify you until you are late to the new shift
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Can an employer change your schedule and not notify you until you are late to the new shift
My wife works at ULTA has been asking
all week if they were going to change
her schedule on Friday. They kept saying
they didn’t know so she checked her
schedule one more time before she left
on Thursday night800pm. There was no
change. The next day her boss sent her a
picture of the schedule at 120pm with
my wife’s scheduled time 230pm
crossed out and a new time 1100am was
written in pen. This meant that she was
already almost 2 hours late to work.
Asked on July 7, 2017 under Employment Labor Law, California
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 7 years ago | Contributor
Unfortunately, unless your wife had a written employment contract guarantying her schedule, it is legal. Without a contract, your wife is an "employee at will": the employer can control all aspects of her job at any time, without explanation or notice, including shfts or scheduling; and could discipline or even terminate an employee at any time, for any reason. So since they could have just terminated her, they can change her schedule without notice of it to her.
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