Employer Chastising an Employee in the Presence of Custromers
Employee was solicited by phone from a company claiming to be with Verizon Yellow Pages on the store phone. The employee stated specificaly that they were not authorized to charge anything to the phone bill. The company employed a survey, and during the course of the survey asked questions in order to invoke a ''Yes'' response. The recording was altered and the question regarding authorization was changed to a ''Yes'' answer. The company the employee is working for incurred an increase in there phone bill over the course of four months before the deciet was noticed. Upon notice, the owner approached the employee in question and proceeded to chastise and berate in the presence of customers. Is this allowed?
Re: Employer Chastising an Employee in the Presence of Custromers
What you allege the phone company did is illegal, although you'd have a very difficult time finding evidence to prove it.
As for a boss berating an employee in the presence of customers, unless he threatened the employee physically, or talked to the employee in a discriminatory(re: gender, race, etc.) way, there's not much to do about it.
Contact me if you wish to discuss this further.
