people working part time, what is the law?

[icenine]

Originally Posted by noonereal

OK, so today they went to the job site and the client said no service was requested.

Is there any recourse given all these abuses given the person needs the job?

Not really. That is just how it is these days. To be frank your friend needs to increase his or her skill level....in other words become an RN. Even RNs can have it tough though depending on who they work for but it is much better than what home health care givers make.

If they were CALLED into work by that job site and then told they were not needed they should have least received two hours of normal pay IF they are being paid to be on call...that is how my hospital does it for techs. But the people your friend works for do not sound like they would do that.

I mean it sounds like a patient called his agency requesting a care giver but then the patient changed his mind. The agency should at least be paying for the time it took him to drive there.

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by icenine

I mean it sounds like a patient called his agency requesting a care giver but then the patient changed his mind. The agency should at least be paying for the time it took him to drive there.

Here is what I think happened.

They called yesterday about this job as 6 hours at one client is a good days pay for this operation. Then... after confining this job they said, "oh, BTW, we have a one hour job just before this one, it's so convenient."

The client never called in, it was used as a carrot to get the one hour gig, at 6:30 am covered.

[icenine]

Originally Posted by noonereal

Here is what I think happened.

They called yesterday about this job as 6 hours at one client is a good days pay for this operation. Then... after confining this job they said, "oh, BTW, we have a one hour job just before this one, it's so convenient."

The client never called in, it was used as a carrot to get the one hour gig, at 6:30 am covered.

He needs to dump that agency if he can. Unless they are offering good benefits or he is getting pretty decent hours.

You say he makes $10? My wife makes $11 as a janitor in a California casino.
Your area in NY and mine in Socal are not too much different in terms of cost of living.

I know some x-ray techs that get hit with the same thing. The bad thing is that these agencies probably have a whole roster of people to do this too.

Now if he is brand new to the agency and wants to keep the job sometimes you have to do the really annoying stuff like what you just detailed in order to make a good reputation and gain regular hours....they tend to call those who tend to show up and thus give them regular hours because they have a reputation for reliability. But if he has been doing this for a few years then they are just using him to save money.

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by icenine

Now if he is brand new to the agency and wants to keep the job sometimes you have to do the really annoying stuff like what you just detailed in order to make a good reputation and gain regular hours....they tend to call those who tend to show up and thus give them regular hours because they have a reputation for reliability. But if he has been doing this for a few years then they are just using him to save money.

so you are suggesting that she (not he) incur $11.20 in expenses to earn $10 for a one hour gig?

BTW, she did do this one week, 4 days, for just the reasons you suggest.

[icenine]

Originally Posted by noonereal

so you are suggesting that she (not he) incur $11.20 in expenses to earn $10 for a one hour gig?

BTW, she did do this one week, 4 days, for just the reasons you suggest.

Not suggesting, just letting you know that when people work in a registry those that get called in more often than others are those that say yes a lot,
even when it is really not worth it. I cannot imagine that the company she works for would pull this stuff all the time, otherwise no one would work there.

$10 bucks seems very low to me....

How are her co-workers doing?

My best advice is to get more training if possible...the only way up in the medical field is college and licensing. It is very difficult to make a living wage unless you are an RN, PA, Licensed Medical Imager or PT tech.

What has really happened is that the RN has become the defacto health care worker....where as before you would have LVNs, CNAs and orderlies (to be more correct they are called transporters these days) and RNs now there are just RNs and they end up doing a lot of the stuff LVNs and CNAs did and thus hospitals can save money by not hiring the lower scale positions.

My gut instinct tells me the CNAs that have disappeared from my hospital (we had many in the 90s) are the ones working in the home health care industries. But I do not really know.