Reply To: Companies that Make Employees Work Saturdays

I am not a lawyer but the way I understand the law, it goes as follows. If with reasonable accomidation, the shift can be switched, then the employer is required to do so. An example that happened to me as a computer professional was that everyone had to be on call 1 week every 2 month (24/7) for problem solving. The company wouldn’t hire me because I could not be on call that 1 Saturday every 2 months. I argued that I could switch with someone and take Sunday. The hiring manager wouldn’t agree, but when I went to the head of Personnell, he almost killed the hiring manager.