Re: unknown company policy

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On 11/27/06, Mary Ann wrote:
> 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.
>
> Absent a bonafide employment contract to the contrary, your
employer is free to suspend your salary if you turn down an
assignment and aren't working. It doesn't matter if they have a
written policy about that or not.
>
>
>
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> 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.