My dispatch company asked me to work on Sunday for their event to get more clients. He asked me to prepare, sell, and make food for a food stall during that event.
I spend a total of 40 hours a week at junior high school and elementary school. I am demanding an overtime pay from them if they want me to work on Sunday but I got a message from my manager saying that “although this is a Sunday, however this will be a working day based on the annual calendar for the ALTs. Thank you for your cooperation.”
I haven’t seen the annual calendar for ALTs that my dispatch is referring to. I have our school’s calendar that I follow. And at school, if we’re asked to work on a weekend, we have a substitute holiday.
Does this happen to you? Are there legal repercussions to this? Can I refuse and consider this as forced labor? I have a signed contract that says Saturdays and Sundays are my days off. Reviewed the Labor Standards Act and clearly says the rule re: statutory days off.
Am I missing something? Do they have the right to force me to work for them on my days off without pay?
by rayasan