Is it legal for my employer to prohibit carpooling with my roommate to work even if we are not on the clock and have reliable transportation? #CarpoolingAtWork #EmployeeRights #TransportationPolicy
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What country, state, or province do you live in ?
It’s possible you would be protected in some way by a “legal off duty conduct” law. In some places those only cover things like partisan political activity, or the use of alcohol and tobacco, but in other places it’s very broad.
But if no such law exists, then how you get to work is not a “protected class” for the purposes of employment discrimination law.
You can almost certainly be terminated for cause for tardiness.
Unless you actually do get late enough to earn points, I don’t believe he will terminate you.
Just have one of you be dropped one or two streets over and walk.
Ask your boss if it’s possible that you both could be late, if you both drive separately. That reasoning doesn’t make any sense, even if it was a somewhat reasonable thing to dictate how people get to work.
I truly don’t believe they can tell you that you can’t ride with someone. It’s your choice to run the risk of running late and accumulating points. Tell them they have to cover your travel expenses then. There is no requirement to own a vehicle or any other multitude of things that someone may have to go through to go to work. You could also say that it makes you more accountable knowing that one of you has to pick the other up and the other has to be ready for the other and that develops shared accountability
Nope. Unless employer pays for your travel between home and work.
Tell your boss what you do on your own time is your business. Unless they are paying for or supplying your transportation to and from work they can’t dictate anything. However you need to be on time for work or they can write you up, suspend you or fire you.