Here in MA if you show up for a scheduled work time and are sent home it is a three hour minimum pay.
normal and customary (around here) is if ya show up, you get two hours
pay. if you work, and are sent home, you get four hours pay. if you work
past 4 hours, and get sent home, you get 8 hours pay.
at your normal pay scale. not minimum wage.
i was working in a refinery, in bakersfield, and driving in every morning.
it was a 300 mile round trip from long beach. as it was winter, and allowing
for snow and ice on the backside of grapevine, and tule fog on hwy 99,
i needed to be going 80 MPH at 3:00 am, for a 6 am start.
the employer knew this. there was a monday morning i had car trouble, and
called in at 5 to see if it was even worth driving in... they were adamant that
i had to come in, it was an important day, yada, yada.....
so i drive thru rush hour in LA, over the river and thru the woods, and get
to the jobsite, and they send me into the shop, (12 miles farther).
upon my arrival, they present me with a check for two hours show up pay,
and a termination slip. reduction in force. they could have just told me over
the phone, and fedex'd the check. but they treated all their employees that
way.... the condom school of employee relations:
"you are crucial to the success of our project here, we can't do it without
you, you are key..... but in about 5 minutes, you are going to be turned
inside out, and thrown in the trash."
they are out of business now, bankrupt. couldn't have happened to nicer or
more deserving people..... looks like what goes around, finally arrived.
