THAT being said, it seems like the great ideas end in France, and get completely corrupted once they hit the United States. This winter our city had a cold snap that was much lower than we are used to. I worked in the only outdoor mall in the state, and we were required to have our doors open in below freezing weather. We couldn't keep it warm in the store, but our district manager said that we couldn't wear coats unless they were black wool dress coats (which we had to buy ourselves) and that we couldn't close the door.
Upper management did not respond to safety concerns regarding our door lock malfunctioning, our safe not locking, or our store being dangerously cold to work in.
When we could not make sales plan during the coldest week on record for my city since the 1980s, we had our hours drastically cut. I went from 15 guaranteed hours per week to 4 hours every other week. That's when I put in my notice to quit. I was terminated without seeing or signing paperwork, so I am not sure to this day if my severance paperwork says that I was fired, or that I left.
They also didn't follow my city's PTO law, and never gave me my mandated sick leave after I became ill from working in a building that was less than 40 degrees for several shifts.
