Labor law question
Here's the situation, my girlfriend runs a women's botique here in Michigan, it is located in the garden center of landscaping business. The owners of the company are RWers who screw their employees every chance they get. This week my g/f is scheduled for 50 hours, which is great, she needs the money right now, she received a group email yesterday stating that, "if you work over 40 hours your paycheck will be 40 hours for one of the businesses and the rest will be for the other business." Basically they won't pay overtime.
Is this legal? If not, what is her recourse? If she complains they will cut her hours to nothing or fire her.
These are the worst people imaginable, typical GOPers who underpay their workers who barely scrape by at the same time they live in million dollar houses on lakes. They inherited the businesses from the grand parents and just keep all of the money for themselves, they repeatedly deny employees safe working conditions and health benefits, just to line their own pockets. The head guy once said to me at a company picnic that, "wow, look at all of these families and their kids, you know what, I feel good, because I put clothes and shoes on all of these people's and their childrens' backs." I was appalled and said, no AJ, your workers are the ones who put shoes and clothes on your family, their laboe also allows you to take fancy vacations and build huge houses. Just terrible people who are so consumed with greed that they have no idea how their workers suffer. They actually believe that they are good people when they pay next to nothing, provide little or no healthcare, and then want to cheat employees out of a few dollars in OT pay. They have a worker currently who works 55+ hours every week outdoors, she previously beat breast cancer, now it looks like the cancer might be back, they offer her no health benefits, when they founf out she might have cancer again, they said, "Oh, so sorry, but we got your back." What that means is they'll probably give her some time off for treatments, but nothing else. I don;t have to remind anyone how much better your outcome will be battling cancer if you have insurance.
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