Can my employer legally do this? (decorating home office)
Question by Amber: Can my employer legally do this?
Today my manager decided that we are no longer allowed to have cell phones in the building. We used to keep them locked in our purses (which are subject to random searches) but 1 girl got caught texting. So now we have 3 options.
Leave our phones at home (so if anything happens while driving we won’t have a phone to call someone.
Leave our phones in our car (its AZ, still triple digit weather)
Give our phones to the manager to keep during the day, tho her “office” has no lock and no drawer or cupboard that locks and she is rarely in it. (I don’t feel comfortable leaving my expensive phone in the hands of someone else to easily get broken or lost and they won’t replace it bc there’s no proof they did it. And they said if we don’t comply, we are fired.
Can they do this? Why or why not?
My issue is, why can’t we keep it in our purses? Then its not with us during work. And I meant if I was driving and broke down, I need my phone. I’m not gonna walk my pregnant in this heat. And if I left it in my car, it’d be sitting in triple digit heat for 10+ hrs. The phone manual even says to not keep it in temps over like 89 or something for prolonged periods of time.
Best answer:
Answer by Luna Lovegood
Yeah they can absoloutly do this…. Its thier bussiness they can pretty much decide if they want cellphones in it, i mean theyre not paying you to text all day long!
and what do you mean you wont have a phone to call some one if something happens?
theres a thing called a LAND LINE.
i would suggest you put your phone in the car.
i mean they have the right to fire you
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