What can I do : Colorado employment and discrimination laws?

Question

My employer has recently begun monthly mandatory meetings which I cannot attend b/c M-F I have another job. I work in healthcare as a CNA and I believe that I am required to attend six inservices yearly (I could be wrong on this point) The only alternative is to attend one of these hour long meeting while I am at the job in question. This is not always possible, we are often short staffed and removing an employee from the floor is impractical for resident care. When I voiced this concern in the last meeting I was asked to stay after> I posed an alternative solution that if they could provide me with the paperwork from each meeting then I would be able to read, sign that I read it and be counted as attending. This idea was shot down and the supervior then asked me how old I was (I refused to answer). The meeting ended with them stating that any issues with quality care were my problem and if I did not attend the meetings I would be written up or fired. What should I do from here?

Both of my jobs are considered full time as I was hired to work the "baylor" shift two 16 hour shifts on the weekend and be paid and treated as a full time employee.

Answer 1

You can check out federal discrimination laws at FindUSLaw.com: http://finduslaw.com/finduslaw/employment_discrimination

Answer 2

Realize you are totally in the wrong here from the start.

First....you have 2 jobs....and it sounds like this job w/ the meetings is your main job. That means they look at you as a moonlighter....a person who isn't 100% for the company and works another job.

It is not their concern nor worry that you cannot get to the meetings and he asked you your age, not to get an answer of your age but as a sarcastic remark of......were you just born yesterday? How dare you ask such an item.

You need to choose which job is more important...if 1st job...then I would get to the meetings on time, etc.

If not....quit.

You are in the wrong here and no grounds for any discrimination laws or anything. Actually if anything, the 1st employer might have moonlighting clause in their employment contracts and since you are violating that, they could actually press charges and sue you instead.

NEVER bite off the heads above you....as they will always bite back harder.