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    Workshare

    My jurisdiction is: Kansas Our hourly employees are on work share which means they only work 24-32 hours per week and can get unemployment for the other 1-2 days. I was wondering if you are non-exempt salary, where I get paid hourly and also qualify for overtime. Can I get the unemployment...
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    Mileage Reimbursment

    I live in Kansas. Our company has always reimbursed us for mileage, when our job takes us elsewhere. It is in the handbook that you will be reimbursed for mileage. We have three plants all about one mile apart. The offices are at the main plant. We do not get mail delivery here so we have...
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    threats

    Can a manager threaten you constantly with your job? He does it in a way so that he can get people to do things. Nothing illegal or anything, some of it is just wrong. I am in Kansas. Thanks
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    Salary

    I work in Kansas. How many hours can they make a salary person work legally? I am scheduled for 90 hours in one week. Anything be done about this?
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    Overtime?

    I am an hourly employee in Kansas at a manufacturing job. They have set our schedule for 50 hours per week. They tell us because it is a set schedule and we agreed to it that they don't have to pay us overtime. Is this correct? Thanks
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    Wrongful Termination?

    State of Kansas--manufacturing plant--Non-union. An employee gave his 2 weeks notice because he found a job elsewhere. It made the Director of Operations mad so he fired him. The paper the employee was given for reason of termination was because he was seeking employment elsewhere. The...
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    threat?

    An "executive manager" tells a 16 year salary employee (also a manager)to his face that he has been trying to fire him since he (the executive manager) has worked here which is just one year. He told him he is having trouble firing him, he can't find a good cause and told the employee that he...
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    Holiday shutdown

    I am in Kansas and work for a manufacturing company. I am Non-exempt salary. They are going to be shutting down for a week for the Thanksgiving holiday. HR and managers tell us we HAVE to use our vacation for this. Some of us are wanting to save our vacation for the Christmas holiday. We...
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    Close to Harrasement?

    I live in Kansas. New boss in the picture, will have been here 1 year next month. Plays mind games with people that are just unreal. He has managed to fire some long term employees due to them not agreeing to some of the ways he wants things done. We are a manufacturing plant so some of...
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    No Handbook

    We do not have a handbook at our company. So when they write you up for something that you did that was wrong in the company eyes, you are surprised because you did not know it was wrong. They are very nit-picky about certain things. I have not been written up, but all of the sudden people...
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    FMLA and Job Status

    I have Lupus. It has "flamed up" again and this time it is kicking my butt. I am having to miss work here and there because of it. I first went to the HR Manager and told him about it and asked about FMLA. (Apparently couldn't keep his mouth shut, because several people knew about my illness...
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    Discrimination against Education?

    The company I work for has hired a new employee to over see the operations of the company. Most of the salary employees have been here 8 years plus. We have 4 employees that have been with the company 14 years or more. He has started firing some of the salary employees. No reason given...
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