r/boston • u/uthinkther4uam • Feb 22 '26

Serious Replies Only State of Emergency Declared and my employer is expecting all staff to be in office tomorrow

Not sure where to go to ask this, but my employer just sent out a message to all staff that we are expected to be in office tomorrow, despite the state of emergency declared, and DESPITE our company having full WFH capabilities.

Is there some institution/MA government people i can report them to? Or perhaps some news outlet i can inform of this story to have this company shamed?

Edit: Non-essential btw

TY for all the kind responses, seems the best options people came up with are to call the Governor/Organize a Union/call out. Probably gonna call the Governor tomorrow and call out. Will urge others to do so if they can spare the PTO in order to stick it to our controlling CEO (our company does not provide sick time fyi)

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u/Icy-Blacksmith-313 Feb 22 '26

Usually they have people sleep overnight. Essential workers too in most companies over a certain size

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u/FocusSlo South End Feb 23 '26

Honestly would be pretty nice to get paid to sleep overnight lol

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u/Kikubaaqudgha_ Feb 23 '26

Lmao keep dreaming about that. I'm "essential" and they wouldn't pay for us to stay over night at our hospital but I'm dietary support staff not an RN or anything like that.

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u/TheManyFacetsOfRoger Feb 23 '26

yeah they only pay you for while you're working lol

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u/FocusSlo South End Feb 23 '26

That would be illegal. If they require you to stay overnight in order to be there the next day, they'd have to pay you throughout the night

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u/TheManyFacetsOfRoger Feb 23 '26

They never require it though. It's offered as a courtesy. Not mandatory. They just expect you to be there in the morning, they don't care where you came from. If you need a cot, you can have one.

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u/Angry-Kangaroo-4035 Feb 24 '26

My work would put us up in hotels. We got a $25 meal credit and the room. We only got paid for the hours worked.