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IMPORTANT! Every MT/MME needs to read this! - Shining Light

Posted: Mar 03, 2010

Just spoke to someone I know in TAA/Unemployement office. FIRST TIME RIGHT is a gray area. We can fight this because it is a gray area.

It is not right that if a doctor dictates and we cannot understand what they are saying for sure and we can get docked in pay, literally take money from us. IT IS NOT LEGAL.

That is probably why the big bosses are on this board to see what they can get away with. We have every right to fight them. It is just wrong!

I WAS TOLD TO CALL THE BUREAU OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIES. YOU NEED TO CALL YOUR STATE BUREAU OF LABOR INDUSTRY.

You need to tell them what is going on. Also about this new schedulesource and being locked out. They will direct you what to do. I was told I need to send a letter to notify the company that this is not right. I told them that someone was fired from replying to the email (TWEETIE I PRESUME), so someone is contacting me this afternoon.

Also emailed a lawyer about this and waiting to hear if we have grounds or what can be done.

GOOD LUCK. HOPE THIS HELPS.

As an interested non-MQer who reads this board - what is First Time Right?

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It sounds rather punitive. How does it work?

no one knows for sure - we get docked pay though

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if you submit more than 5% of your work to QA, you get docked 3 cpl.
No one knows for sure the calculations to get the 5% or if they dock your entire pay for the day, week, month, year.

Heck, I think I even read in the e-mail that they take your first born, providing it is a female and can type.

keep us posted - sm

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I hope you are correct, but I just don't believe it. I think they can do whatever they want because if we don't like it, we can quit. There is no union, so no one to back us.

Any company can lower pay, demand more hours, anything they want basically, if you don't like it, leave. And that is what they are banking on folks...

keep us posted - spitfire

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Are there still laws against a hostile work environment. If this does not qualify as one, I don't know what does! How much more hostile can you get in a cyber-employment level than to play "head games" with our pay, our hours, et. Many of us here have been an MT for many, many years, paid our dues and should demand a little respect. I think this hostile environment is something that should be ckd out. I know it was on the books of the Labor Board in my State a few years ago and think I will ck it out again. I'm really tired of this crap.

? of legality of MQ re wages/hours - spitfire

spitfire - keep us posted

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I don't know how any of us could prove hostile work environment when we work at home.

I totally get what they are doing to us, but there is nothing keeping us here. If we dont like the heat, get out of the kitchen.

I have been here many, many years and have paid my dues and would love respect also. Just aint gonna happen.

People all over are taking pay cuts, its the economy and the Q will cry the biggest baddest wolf in that game... you know it.

If we all worked in New Jersey, and all 5000 (or however many are left), all went to the labor board, they would do something, but we are all spread out... no one cares.

I hope there is something somewhere that could help us all out. I really do. If there is anything I can do to help, I will!

BUT can they take pay away that you RIGHTFULLY EARNED. - I think that is a gray area too.

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NOt sure that they can just yank pay away. You typed the work, you earned the agreed upon per line pay, so now they decide because you asked for help, they will keep part of your pay?

I don't know if that is legal anywhere!

This sounds right to me ... sm - deadmttyping

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I believe info you got is probably correct. I'm going to look into local State Bureau (thanks for your post).

It occurred to me that this could NEVER happen in any other job. -- Example: you are a clerk at Walmart and they want you to work faster, so they tell you "if your cash drawer at end of shift is not at least $$$, then you will be docked 50 cents/hour in your pay." It would be HEADLINE national news.

There is NO other job that would even consider this crap. I was going to contact my lawyer several months ago to see if MQ has a "hostile work environment." this usually refers, I believe, to sexual harrassment on a job. But, to me, I would rather be sexually harrassed then to have these "changes" and emails coming daily. We are all feeling "mentally harrassed".

Lastly, I have chronic LOW BP and on visit my doctor last week my BP was 140/90 -- outrageously HIGH for me and I know exactly what's causing it. Maybe MQ is hoping they can get rid of all of us who don't quit by causing us to have STROKES.

sounds right to me - spitfire

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Yeah, hostile environment usually does refer to sexual harrassment, however, a few years ago when I looked into it, the interpretation as told to me was on the order of anything that would prevent you from producing your best possible work due to any type of harrassment, including environmental if you need something special for work, mental or psychological just as in mental abuse in a marriage as grounds for divorce. I don't know, just thought I'd throw that out. Am still going to ck on it again. Will have to contact an atty as I'm far, far away from a law library now !

Shining Light - oops

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Great work! This is the kind of info we need. That is what has been driving me crazy. It's all too gray. I will definitely call my state bureau and I will also write a letter if that is what it takes. Maybe I will use the legal service I pay for through the company. That would feel good.

I will be looking for any further info you have. Thanks so much for this.

Shining Light - BOMT

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Thanks for the info. I'm in Texas and will definitely be calling my state agency, etc. Hope everyone out there calls their respective state bureau.

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