If you tell your employer you have full availability, does that require you to work overnight?
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If you tell your employer you have full availability, does that require you to work overnight?
I work as a supervisor in a department store and my availability is open to close does that mean they can schedule me to work overnight as they please?
Asked on December 19, 2011 under Employment Labor Law, Florida
Answers:
M.D., Member, California and New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
The fact is that, yes your employer can schedule you to work overnight. While an employer will try to schedule an employee according to the employee's availability, it can and will always schedule employees has to its needs. In most instances, an employer has a great deal of discretion in setting the terms and conditions of the workplace. This includes who and when to schedule for hours of operation. For their part, an employee can choose to work for an employer or not. This is known as "at will' employment.
Exceptions to the above would be if scheduling you overnight violates existing company policy, the terms of an employment contract/union agreement, or constitutes some form of actionable discrimination.
Bottom line, an employer can discharge an employee as it sees fit - this means for any reason or no reason at all. Hopefully, you can resolve this matter or else you risk losing your job.
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