FWIW
Posted By: Alice on 2009-01-29
In Reply to: Labor Board Question - sm - AnyMT
I believe the Labor Board only enforces minimum wage and hour laws. It would depend, it seems, on your individual situation. You can certainly call the Wage and Hour office and ask. Eventually, they would suggest that you call the office closest to the company that you work for. You don't have to identify yourself when asking questions. I don't know if they accept anonymous formal complaints, though. It certainly would not hurt to ask.
Here's a good place to start:
http://www.dol.gov/cgi-bin/compliance_contactus.asp
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My experience - FWIW
I do not work for your company, but I can see a familiar pattern. I'll tell you about my experience with another company and see if it sounds like what might be happening in your case. (Don't know that it is, but you'd be a better judge of that than me.)
Our rad account was wonderful. Lots of work. Great dictators. Perfect hours.
Then we started getting less work. A rad or two dropped off the radar. This snowballed over a period of a few weeks. We all asked the supe what was up. 'Seasonal slowdown.' (Yeah, my arse.) Then one of the rads slipped up and dictated 'Nevermind, secretary, I'll send this to PowerScribe.' Of course, PS is VR software.
After confronting the supe with this, we were 'assured' that, no, we were not losing the account.
Fast forward a month. Conference call says the doctors are indeed moving to VR. They are weeding off 1 or 2 rads at a time to train them on VR. That's why the rads were 'disappearing' and why the work volume was going down. Within a matter of weeks, we were all 'dismissed.'
Fortunately, I landed another rad account.
Guess what.
Same exact thing happened. The work gradually slowed down as a few of the rads were swapped out to VR, then it snowballed until almost all of the work was gone (expect, of course, the really rotten dictators who obviously had a hard time with VR - though eventually even they made the switch).
Now, I'm not saying that's what's coming your way. I'm just saying that I can commiserate with your current situation, because I've been there twice. Not knowing (or not being told the truth about) why there was a work shortage all of a sudden. Worrying if I'd have a job in a week or two. Panicing about a dwindling paycheck and a quickly-emptying PTO bank.
Hold on. Chin up. Maybe things will work out better for you than they did for me.
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