Posted by Sally on November 28, 2002 at 22:33:49:
Does anyone have any advice for Store 2881 (the Inner Harbor store in Baltimore, MD)? Our GM has recently on several occasions asked employees to work off the clock, doing tasks like front list or straightening after the staff has clocked out for the night. Several staff members have been asked to do work while on lunch.
Employees are often forced to sit off the clock for as much as 20 minutes before they are allowed to leave the building as well. This happens at least 4 or 5 times a week, adding up to a substantial amount of time that employees are trapped in the store without pay.
We're afraid to approach the issue directly since she's fired two long term employees in the last 2 weeks who she has publicly had grudges against, and has forced a large number of other employees to sign falsified lists of "transgressions". She is obviously attempting to clear the store of "troublemakers", probably in response to her recently being reprimanded for her own behavior. ("Troublemakers" who were actually good employees but who tended to let the GM know when she wasn't doing her job.)
We're contacting the labor board regardless, but we were wondering if there was a point to contacting We Listen? Our impression of it is not very good, but we were wondering if anyone with prior experience with it might have any suggestions or warnings. (Retaliation tends to fly fairly fast at our store.)