#Employement laws

[unbfacts]

[vyeoh]

I'm rewatching all the Marvel Defenders shows on Netflix and as much as I mock the MCU now, I need non-Marvel fans to understand that I was and still am a fan of "Daredevil fighting the gentrifying assshole who bought out the police force because ACAB both as a lawyer and vigilante of the community" and "Jessica Jones fighting the man who mind controlled her into doing unspeakable things and forming a community of fellow survivors and allies while dealing with PTSD in a range of both healthy and unhealthy ways" Marvel. God I love these idiots they carried so hard

[peppermintmochafem]

Executive position femme domme in skirt and heels x butch secretary in suit.. is that anything??

[bitchesgetriches]

Predatory NDAs Just Got a Lot Harder To Enforce

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[fuckterfs-deactivated20221212]

so excited, my union is doing warning strikes on guy fawkes' day

[saintsenara]

I was recently reminded that Harry in his second year THREW A FIREWORK into an active potion across the classroom so that Hermione could steal rare and expensive ingredients. Any Chemistry teacher would’ve had him out on his ear for doing the same thing in a lab, never to return - stunts like that with chemicals could kill someone! Snape had some unfair (if realistic) reasons to dislike Harry, but a couple of extremely reasonable ones lol.

you're right and you should say it, anon. harry is a menace in that classroom.

this is, i think, one of the main reasons why any reading of snape by adults needs to engage properly with the genre conventions which govern his characterisation. because snape's exaggerated meanness is completely necessary to the role he plays in the story - and adult readers really need to treat that contextually, rather than foaming at the mouth about how upsetting a character in a children's story is for them - but, when he's looked at outside of those conventions... the man is having a nightmare at work.

child readers see things like harry yeeting a firework into a big bowl of chemicals and find it heroic and funny, as the story requires them to do, which means - as a result - that they find snape's reaction to him (and, especially, to neville, who is also a danger in the classroom, no matter what else we can say about snape's treatment of him) ridiculous and unfair.

but, obviously, as adults we can see things through a slightly more health-and-safety-focused lens and... yeah, as you say, if any of us had fucked about in chemistry at school like harry and ron fuck about in potions we would not have remained in the classroom for much longer...

all of the hogwarts teachers seem to have hellish jobs with no personal lives. and so we can all guess what the lesson is there...

join a union, kids.

[kasterborous-constellation]

hot take i think requiring employees to do work requiring focus directly next to 8 other people making noises and talking on the phone and not allowing the use of headphones is unreasonable

[iphijaania]

officially a law school graduate now 🥹

[woefully-undercaffeinated]

What to do when something illegal happens at work

When your boss does something illegal at work, it's common to freeze up because you're not sure what to do. Here are a few tips for how to handle those situations during and after:

While it is happening:

Keep yourself safe. In the moment, your first priority is always to keep yourself and others from physical harm and out of danger as much as possible. If any other advice I give you conflicts with that, your safety takes priority.

Make sure you know where you are. If you think your safety might be at risk, getting your bearings can be critically important. Take note of potential exit routes, hazards, the flow of traffic (both vehicle and foot traffic), cameras, and any safe areas you know of. Later, knowledge of your exact location may be very important in reconstructing events.

Check the time. Knowing exactly when something happened, and how long it took, will be extremely valuable.

Look around for witnesses, and try to bring some over if possible. Witnesses will both reduce the likelihood of more outrageous behavior and help you to take action afterwards. Do your best to remember who was there.

Say "please let me finish" every time you're interrupted, and count the number of times it happened. Bullies love to interrupt people at the first sign of disagreement, and then later they'll claim that nobody disagreed with them when instead nobody could get in a word edgewise. Saying "please let me finish" calls out the fact that they were interrupting, and a count of the times you were interrupted will help you protect yourself from being misinterpreted later.

Avoid agreeing to anything or signing anything if possible. You have the right to review any document that you're asked to sign, which usually includes taking the document and having it examined by an attorney. If you're being threatened with serious consequences if you don't sign immediately, write "signed under duress". If they're asking for a verbal agreement, try to get them to accept a "let me think about it/check my to-do list/etc" rather than a hard "yes". Even if the thing you'd be agreeing to is something you're okay with, it's still important not to agree to things when you don't feel like you're allowed to say "no"; in stressful situations, our judgment can be seriously compromised, and allowing yourself to be bullied into saying "yes" will set a bad precedent for further interactions.

After it's over, as soon as you're in a safe place:

Complete the WTWFU checklist

Send a follow-up email summarizing your understanding of what was communicated. It can be as simple as "just to ensure we understood each other, what I got was that you were telling me/us that [we'll be disciplined if we discuss our wages/contacting a union is a fireable offense/our pay will be docked if anyone submits a complaint to OSHA/etc], is that correct?". If there is information that protects you, such as a health condition or pregnancy you need accommodation for or a prior agreement that is being violated, include it in your email even if the company already knows. CC HR and any coworkers who were present and BCC your personal email*. Forward any responses to your personal email as well*.

Rescind any agreements you made. Either in the same email as step #2 or in a separate email, depending on what you think is appropriate, say "I didn't feel like I could safely say 'no' in that situation, so I'd like to rescind my earlier agreement until I've had some time to reconsider." If it's something you think you'd have otherwise agreed to, try to offer a time frame for an actual decision. CC HR and BCC your personal email*.

Collect any evidence you can, and make note of any evidence that exists but isn't accessible to you. This includes emails about the issue, any photos that were already taken or that you can safely and legally take,

If something illegal was done or hinted at, contact the applicable regulatory agency as soon as possible with all of the information above.

Consider arranging a consult with an employment law attorney -- consults aren't the same as retainers, they're considerably cheaper (or sometimes free, depending on your income and the possibility of a lawsuit) and can either turn into ongoing representation or just be a one-time service.

* Don't include information that you have a legitimate duty to safeguard, such as customer data, protected health information, or non-public market-affecting information. This does not include any information pertaining to working conditions, your compensation, regulatory compliance, or workplace safety -- the company isn't allowed to demand that you keep those a secret. Either try to get the point across without including the specific information that's being safeguarded, or censor it by replacing it with two underscores per replacement with generic descreptors as necessary (i.e. 'I have safety concerns about the release of our secret robotics project on January 10' becomes 'I have safety concerns about the release of our __[project]__ on __[date]__').

[clementimetodie]

Why does the right constantly believe they are not being idealistic, the world needs to conform to your beliefs for them to work too, things are not going to just turn on a dime because you think you're intellectually superior for not thinking about the impact your changes would have on other people

[gwydionmisha]

Republicans are lying when they say they care about the safety and wellbeing of children.

[hwsforeignrelations]

RANT

[nando161mando]

[awkward-teabag]

I keep seeing people respond to the Microsoft Recall bullshit with there's an ability to disable it and that misses the point. Several points in fact.

It's only a matter of time until an update bugs/"bugs" it and re-enables it without warning so people who had previously disabled it think they're in the clear until their info is leaked or they get a warning they're low on storage space.

If people don't have admin rights, they may not be able to disable it. Laptops given by work or school lock down what people can do with them, some going as far as dictating which browser one has to use on them. Even if you don't need admin rights to disable Recall, you may not have the ability to do so without losing the laptop and/or job and/or education.

I'm unsure of how it would handle multiple accounts but if it can be locked by someone else to always be enabled, children and people in abusive situations would also be unable to disable it. Even if it can't be locked, disabling it could result in punishment from a parent or the abuser.

Is it really disabled or is it "disabled" in that what the user sees is it being disabled while it's still collecting information and/or sending information to Microsoft in the background?

Such a feature should never have been automatically enabled in the first place. It's bad, predatory design to have such a feature enabled from the start and to expect users AKA customers to go out of their way to look up and then opt-out of something.

If disabling it really disables it, it can still result in stress and concern that it's not. The vast majority of people do not have the skills or knowledge to look into the OS guts to give themselves peace of mind that it really truly is disabled.

I'm sure I'm missing some, too.

TLDR is disabling is a bandaid someone else may rip off for you, someone may hurt you if you use, it may not work at all except as a placebo, and should have never been needed in the first place.

[bizarrelittlemew]

i still can't get over that HR fucked up so badly that i just suddenly owed $10,000. despite me calling attention to the error in december. which they proceeded to do nothing about for 6 months

[shalom-iamcominghome]

Hi, me again with an ask response to an ask, this time re asking for Shabbat accommodations before converting. If anon lives in the US, these FAQs, these guidance materials, and this text of the law, all from EEOC, should help. I pulled this from the first link (bolding for emphasis is mine):

"Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment discrimination based on religion. This includes refusing to accommodate an employee's sincerely held religious beliefs or practices unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship (more than a minimal burden on operation of the business). A religious practice may be sincerely held by an individual even if newly adopted, not consistently observed, or different from the commonly followed tenets of the individual's religion."

If anon is not from the US, I recommend researching all relevant laws before they approach their employer.

Best of luck, anon!

Exactly!! This is great information to have in general, and I hope this will prove helpful to everyone!

This is absolutely true; in my answer, I focused mostly on the idea that you don't have to tell them why you need the time off. I am selective about what my employers know about me, and I encourage everyone to have the discernment between professional and personal life and boundaries. You don't have to justify your life to your employer, and they (in the U.S.) are not entitled to religious discrimination regardless of your status. This is a great reminder, and I want to thank you for reminding me of what is in that title, and for taking the time to send this! It's most certainly appreciated 🩵