when the buses are off the road, cabs aren’t accepting fares, the city and police are telling people not to go out, for 24 hours. you think that all the business’s and restaurants in the city might close?
Nope. Instead some greedy, selfish owners decide to stay open, and make the staff come to work. clearly the health and safety of their employees do not matter. Is the reputation of your business always being open, more important than your staff, who could injure themselves in countless ways with conditions like that? clearly your answer is yes.
To the customers of these business’s, just a reminder you have a choice if you want to go out in bad conditions, the staff have no choice. Next storm, cook your own food, cause if I step in one more puddle, I might actually spit in your food. —storm day boycott
This article appears in Feb 19-25, 2015.
wouldn’t it cost those businesses more in wages paid out to stay open if no customers are coming through the door?
and if those customers have a habit of trudging through snow and ice to get their burger, or coffee of gum, then I guess the business has to open, or lose that day’s income to his competitor who does stay open.
malls suck though. their contract with the tenants forces them be open.
THE JUNGIAN COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS
Yes, you certainly can have snow days together! Clearly your boss is a devotee of Jungian psychology which celebrates the “collective unconscious,” that part of a person’s unconscious which is common to all human beings. Be a part of that collective unconscious! Get out there and celebrate the snow day together!
A pleasure as always,
Cheerio!
You can always work elsewhere dear. Now stop complaining and bring me my soup!
You got paid, right?! Soup!
You can refuse to go to work if your work is non-essential, you won’t get paid but if the conditions are actually dangerous to go out in you can stay home.
Crispy Critters is correct, aside from losing a days pay your work can’t penalize you for not going in to work if you can reasonably state that it was unsafe.
I dispatch emergency roadside assistance in South Central Ontario and the other day there were only 2 people on the phones – me and another guy – for the first 3 hrs.
And if they closed, employees would bitch that they are losing wages.
No employer can ”make the staff come to work”. Nope. Where did this myth originate?
No work no pay. I’ve already used the vacation pay to make ends meet so no more snowlidays for this cat.
Um yeah, the employee can refuse to come to work and you think he or she won’t get fired because the employee legally can’t?? C’mon people…do you really think they will fire them and call it ‘not coming to work in snow’? No…they will wait a week or so, cut their shifts and force them out. Most of these people are minimum wage earners and aren’t gonna fight it. They’ll just lose their job and try to find another. I agree that people should just stay home, it’s the ‘it’s only a bit of snow’ people with their big honking trucks that need to prove the big bad snow doesn’t stop them that go out in this crap (I know this because there are 4 of them on my street; each storm they ‘peel’ out just to show mother nature who’s boss). All I see is a man with penis issues.