My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: KANSAS
I was just curious if an employer (in this case a federal government agency within the Department of Justice) can mandatory an employee to stay for an overtime shift. The scenario is this: said employee works a 2:15-10:15pm shift. The employee finishes that shift and prior to walking out the door, the supervisor contacts the employee and states they are mandating them to work an overtime shift (non emergency) from 12:00am midnight - 8:00am. This means the employee completes their scheduled shift, departs and leaves the place of employment and then has to return to work an hour and 45 minutes later to work a mandatory overtime (this employee lives too far away to drive home and then return in a timely fashion). Your options would be to sit/sleep in your car for the almost 2 hours or go to a local Walmart and walk around. Can an employer mandate you to leave and then immediately come back an hour or two later and if you refuse, bring about disciplinary action? I have heard of people getting mandatory overtime after a shift to work an immediate shift following their regularly scheduled shift.
Lastly, is there anything that states how many times in a row an employee can be mandated to work overtime (3 shifts, 5 shifts?) and who would be liable should an employee get injured either on their way home after 3, 4 or 5 16-18 hour shifts in a row (this type of situation would obviously present some workplace hazards as well as off duty hazards)? Thanks very much for any information or input. The water cooler - arm chair quarterback discussions at the office don't lend to any credible solutions!!
I was just curious if an employer (in this case a federal government agency within the Department of Justice) can mandatory an employee to stay for an overtime shift. The scenario is this: said employee works a 2:15-10:15pm shift. The employee finishes that shift and prior to walking out the door, the supervisor contacts the employee and states they are mandating them to work an overtime shift (non emergency) from 12:00am midnight - 8:00am. This means the employee completes their scheduled shift, departs and leaves the place of employment and then has to return to work an hour and 45 minutes later to work a mandatory overtime (this employee lives too far away to drive home and then return in a timely fashion). Your options would be to sit/sleep in your car for the almost 2 hours or go to a local Walmart and walk around. Can an employer mandate you to leave and then immediately come back an hour or two later and if you refuse, bring about disciplinary action? I have heard of people getting mandatory overtime after a shift to work an immediate shift following their regularly scheduled shift.
Lastly, is there anything that states how many times in a row an employee can be mandated to work overtime (3 shifts, 5 shifts?) and who would be liable should an employee get injured either on their way home after 3, 4 or 5 16-18 hour shifts in a row (this type of situation would obviously present some workplace hazards as well as off duty hazards)? Thanks very much for any information or input. The water cooler - arm chair quarterback discussions at the office don't lend to any credible solutions!!
Compensation and Overtime: Required Mandatory Overtime
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