Current Events > I just sent this email to management at work. Will I be fired?

(+) Yeah! (+)

From this link:

https://www.dllr.state.md.us/labor/wages/essretailfaqs.shtml

10. My employer says that I can have a "working shift break"? What is a working shift break and is it allowed?
Any employer can provide a "working shift break" in the following circumstances:

• the type of work prevents the employee from being relieved of work; or
• the employee is permitted to consume a meal while working, the employee is paid for this time, and the employer and the employee mutually agree in writing to the working shift break.

Maryland wage law requires that you be paid for all time worked. If you were not paid for a working shift break, you may file a claim for your unpaid wages with the Commissioner of Labor and Industry. A copy of the claim form is available on our website.

According to what I read, if an employee has a "working shift break" they are not to have lunch deducted from their paychecks.

It's been understood that we in the parts room have a working shift break. We are not able to leave the parts room to get lunch or just enjoy some time to ourselves. We're always expected to be in the parts room. Kathy Stewart even told Kevin and I that we need to eat lunch in the parts room. Which is in fact, a working shift break. To be paid.

So my question is, are we entitled to be paid for lunch and also back-pay for all the lunches that were deducted from us? Should we have something in writing that says we have to be in the parts room at all times even though it's "understood" that we have to be? Can we put a sign on the door saying the parts room is closed for 30 minutes?

As of now I feel as if our rights have been violated and we deserve to be compensated. I'd like to hear something by January 31st. I'll be forwarding this to my attorney and taking care of it myself otherwise. I enjoy working at B&G and sincerely like everyone here. But I also would like to be treated fairly. I've asked for things to change multiple times and never got a response.

Thanks

tldr: they've been ripping me off for 5 years and I called them out on it.

My mortgage and all other bills are paid so I don't care if I get fired or if they don't like me. Fuck em.

I doubt you'll be fired over that.

Maybe receive some negative treatment going forward though. Often times these things don't change unless you make a stand in a formalized manner like you did. So goodluck!

You have an unpaid lunch break that you always work through anyway?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/79823811

You can't wait a full twelve hours to make the parody topic, you missed the window.

Abject failure.