Is It Legal For An Employer To Schedule You As An 'extra', Just To Send You Home Because 'nobody Called In Sick'?
I work at a national restaurant chain, and I arrived for a shift today, just to find out that I was not needed and would either need to go home, or find someone there to send home and 'swap' shifts with. If I was not scheduled I would not have a problem with this, but I was in fact scheduled, got ready and commuted just to be told this. It seems like it shouldn't be legal, and at other jobs I have worked the management would just call a list of people who aren't on the schedule to cover shifts for anyone who is sick/can't make it, rather than schedule 20 people to work in a restaurant that only needs 15 to fully staff it.
Is it legal for an employer to do this? Schedule more than is needed, just in case workers call in sick, only to send them home without pay when everyone shows up?
I'm in the United States, state of Colorado.
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