Iam a full time employee, how many times per/wk can your boss send you home w/o pay b/c work is slow?

Question

I work ina a hospital,12hr shifts, when the censes are low (in patients), my supervisor will send the day shift nurses aid home. We only get 36hrs a wk to begin with and I was just wanting to know legally how many times is she aloud to send us home with out pay durning a regular work week? and is it discrimination when she dosen't send the night shift worker home?

Answer 1

If you don't have a writtten work agreement that lays out the policy nor a union you are prettey much at the mercy of the floor nurse. you could check with human relations or whatever they call it at your facility about your right to work scheduled hours. Sending workers home is a far cry from asking for volunteers.

Answer 2

Did you sign a contract to always work 12 hours per day? If you did not, then the boss can do whatever he wants to do because he hired you and can fire you or send you home if he doesn't need you. Now, if you have a union at the hospital, he probably can't and would have to find you something else to do. If there is a union, you need to complain to the shop steward about it. If there is not a union there, he can do just as he pleases and you will have to do as he says or look for other employment.

Yes. It is discrimination to always send the day shift person home. Logically, the boss would send the night shift home instead of you because he is probably paying a little more to the night shift people (night shift differential). So, why he is sending you home all the time and not others you need to investigate and sit down and talk to him about if you think you can without losing your job.

Answer 3

I work in a Psych hospital, when we have low census we get "leave of absence with benefits" which amounts to stay home with no pay but we won't take your insurance and stuff away. Unfortunately in the medical profession this can happen at any time and there is nothing that can be done about it. I have been LOAB'd for an entire week already (my week is part time though) We are allowed to take PTO time or vacation but who wants to burn all of their PTO for that? Some of the girls who have no other support have taken some unemployment comp, I guess that you can take unemployment if you get less than scheduled hours to make up the deficit. It might be worth checking on. The reason that the night person might not be getting leave is that there is much less staff on nights? I know that this is the case where I work, 5 or 6 day people 2 night people, can't send a night person home unless the day person wants to swap and the night person agrees to the LOAB. Hope this helped!

Answer 4

You need to work 30 hours a week in order to be full time. It's not discrimination if the night shift has the patients to justify the need for workers.

Answer 5

Any time they want to. If you owned a business and there was no business would you want to pay to have people standing around? Think of it from the standpoint of the business owner. It's done in the restaurant business all the time.
The others are right without a contract guaranteeing you hours you are out of luck.
Sorry

Answer 6

If the worker shows up they are entitled to 4 hours pay. in the event that they are sent domicile after working better than 4 they are entitled to eight hours pay. in the event that they call you in strengthen and enable you understand to stay domicile you're entitled to no longer something.

Answer 7

You should check with the Human Resources Office of the Hospital. But the generic answer is simply, "The boss may not always be right, but they're always the boss." ☺


Doug

Answer 8

Full time employees generally get 36 to 40 hours a week.
If you don't get your full week, then they really can't send you home.
You would have to be on overtime.

Answer 9

well 40 hrs is considered full time but again if u r not in a union u have no defense gl

Answer 10

as many times as it takes to find another job.