Wife being required to go to a work conference without pay

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She's making up an excuse to have an affair. The hotel room and no pay is a dead giveaway.

She wants to go. She wants to get away. She is trying to make it sound like a bit of a qualm so her obvious need to have a weekend with co workers paid for by her job doesn't appear so obvious.

Let her be

If her union is not squawking, then I'd go with the party/affair theory.

She doesn't want to go to the conference, but she wants me to come with her since she has to go. She is new at work so is just afraid of pissing off her managers.

Also it's a private hospital, there is no union.

Private hospitals have unions. Are you sure she actually works there? This is very suspicious.

Are you KIDDING??? The hospital is paying for a FREE hotel room for you and your wife to have a big party and you are complaining? Sounds like a great deal to me. Find some great nearby trails to run while your wife is conferencing and it will be an epic adventure.

Yeah I saw that video. Backroom Casing Couch or something like that.

Man up and make enough for the two of you. Take off your skirt.

Not every worker is in a union you dumbfcccks!

Man this place is crawling with stupidity.

A weekend is a bit much. I had a relative in a similar circumstance but it was only a Sat morning, and local.

Another runner wrote:

She doesn't want to go to the conference, but she wants me to come with her since she has to go. She is new at work so is just afraid of pissing off her managers.

you can eat me creampie later if it's any consolation, sport. IN her, brother-- deep & throbbingly in. thank you.

By rights, you are technically correct that she should be compensated for her time or not required to attend. If that's the hill she wants to die, on she can possibly get a pyrrhic victory by fighting it.

This happened to me but in education. It was all expenses paid and I don't think they can force you to do it (it was 6 days) but it would give you a bad rap.

Doping more than no Farah wrote:

She's making up an excuse to have an affair. The hotel room and no pay is a dead giveaway.

You beat me to it.

All healthcare professionals are required by state law to complete a prescribed number of annual continuing education hours. Can this conference by used as continuing ed. hours? If so, payment by the employer for registration and travel costs is customary for doctors, nurses and so on.

It is not considered work time for salary or hourly wage.

obv, there's nothing you/she can do. it's not okay, but as an individual worker one clearly should not pick these fights. and yes, she would be better off with a union in this case.

This is why people are better off working unionized jobs. This doesn't happen if she's in a union.

I do think she's having an affair though.

Union Guy wrote:

This is why people are better off working unionized jobs. This doesn't happen if she's in a union.

I do think she's having an affair though.

Agreed. I don't want to be responsible for my earnings.