Re: unknown company policy

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My employer has a division outside of the accounting contract
section that has full time permanent employees on call and
ready to take assignments.

I receive full benefits, medical insurance, vacation/sick
accrual, etc. So, I am not a contract worker. And I was given
an employee manual upon being hired as a full time employee.

When one assignment ends, I am usually paid my full regular
salary until another assignment is found to remain fully
employed and ready to take on another assignment at a moments
notice.

Thanks for your comments, but they don't really apply to my
situation.

On 11/26/06, sharwinston wrote:
> It appears you're an independent contractor -- not an
> employee. So, why are you reading the employee manual? It
> doesn't apply to you.
>
> Read your contract that you signed. If the other side has
> breached the contract, your remedy or remedies should be
> spelled out in the contract. If not, then your remedy is to
> sue for breach of contract.
>
> On 11/26/06, Mary Ann wrote:
>> I am a permanent contract worker at an accounting placement
>> service.
>>
>> I recently turned down an assignment to work at a company
>> that I had worked at before and didn't like working there.
>> My superivsor knew before contacting me that I would not
>> want to work at the company again. In the conversation
>> about this assignment, I was told that if I didn't accept
>> the assignment, that I would go unpaid until another
>> assignment was found. I normally am paid my regular salary
>> between assignments. I was told that this was company
>> policy. I searched through the employee manual and found
>> no such written company policy in the employee manual.
>>
>> Is it legal for a company to have a non written company
>> policy that effects the compensation that an employee
>> receives and has not informed the employee about until just
>> moments before the employee has to make a decision about a
>> new assignment?
>>
>> I am protesting this non-payment, but would like some
>> knowledge on whether or not companies can have non written
>> policies that are unknown by employees. I live in Texas.